The Year So Far
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Film Features
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Film Features
Leaving La La Land: A Radical History Of The Musical Film
Damon Chazelle’s La La Land, which comes out on DVD this month, is a bad film; a terrible...
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Kiss Me Deadly: David Lynch's Mulholland Drive Remembered
Mulholland Drive runs for fifty miles along a ridge of the Santa Monica Mountains, 1,400f...
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A Quiet Passion: The Problem Of Poetry On Film
When a poet’s tale is told in the medium of film, you can always expect an extra dose of ...
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Anniversary Feature: Wings of Honneamise Remembered
"Suppose that life was a story. If you were to think about it like that... Have you ever ...
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Into The Fire: Rollo Smallcombe On Scoring Clouzot's Inferno
Making a film is such a herculean effort that it's frankly a wonder that any get made at ...
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Anniversary Feature: Love Letters Of A Portuguese Nun Remembered
Firstly I should say I'm disappointed in myself for not immediately registering this as a...
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Brexit-Is-Iccumen-In: The Wicker Man And Britain Today
Consider the following: an inward looking island community being duped into social, moral...
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A Kind Of Blue: Reflections On The Moonlight Soundtrack
History was made at the Oscars this week, as a story depicting a gay black man’s struggle...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
Escaping Suburban Ennui: Date Night And Other Burb Pics
If you are in your 20s and English, you may not really be familiar with the concept of a ‘date ...
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Kick Ass Film Review: Faint Hearted, Turn Tail
You probably already know this from the countless rants of foamy-mouthed TV newscasters, but ye...
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Reviewed
Time and time again, the film industry staggers in front of its collective audience like a remo...
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Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island Reviewed
Martin Scorsese has long had a habit of switching cinematic lanes in the wake of blanket acclai...
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Blur Doc No Distance Left To Run Reviewed
"Whoohoo! When I feel heavy metal..." Rockumentaries by their very nature start with the conce...
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Baiting The Daily Mail: A Prophet Reviewed
Will Self, accorded the job of writing an introduction to an updated translation of We by Yevge...
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Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes Reviewed
Pipe smoking? Check. Intellectual prowess? Check. Astute observations and forensic skills? Chec...
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Vice Documentary Swansea Love Story Reviewed
Over a period of six months filming Swansea’s drug-addicted youth, Leo Leigh (son of British au...
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