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Let's Drift: John Maclean's Cinematic Baker's Dozen
That John Maclean's debut feature film, Slow West, features at its heart a long, strange ...
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Poisoned Intoxicant: Two Cinematic Portrayals Of The Female Monster
Now, in 2015, the girl is no longer Moullet's gun, but both monster and victim ― the subj...
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Och Aye The Noo Wave: Big Gold Dream - Scottish Punk 1977-82
Imagine a record label that turned down Joy Division. Imagine if that record label had al...
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Bromance Is Dead: Male Failure In Humpday And Old Joy
The kind of male companionship depicted in the buddy movie genre has been a staple of Ame...
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Scorsese A Jolly Good Fella: Goodfellas 25 Years On
Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas was released at the cinema in 1990. A quarter of a century l...
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Tug Of Yore: Things Learned At Helsinki's Viva Erotica Festival
“Will people be masturbating in the cinema?” This was one of the most frequently asked qu...
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Things Learned At The 2015 Madeira Film Festival
Now in it's fourth year, the Madeira Film Festival marks itself out from its internationa...
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Kip Follows: Director Carol Morley On The Falling
Carol Morley is the director of 12 films. Her first full length feature The Alcohol Years...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
Avatar 3D Review - "More Polished Than Hugh Hefner's Cock"
It’s been a long time since James Cameron directed a feature film - 12 years, in fact, since he...
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Where The Wild Things Are: On The Couch With Spike Jonze
Where the Wild Things Are, the new adaptation by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers of Maurice Sendak'...
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Lo-Fi Fright: Paranormal Activity Reviewed
What makes a good horror film? Is it the the blood or the guts? The breasts or the beasts? The ...
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We Live In Public - A Warhol For Our Times?
Does Josh Harris - self-described as "one of the first great artists of the twenty-first centur...
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Poster Children: Died Young, Stayed Pretty Reviewed
Do you remember the music posters you tacked to your teenage bedroom wall? Did the posters’ ico...
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All Tomorrow's Parties The Film Reviewed: The Triumph Of The Fans
From 2000 to 2004, I went to every single All Tomorrow's Parties festival held in this country....
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It's Grim Up North: Michael Winterbottom's Butterfly Kiss
“God’s forgotten me, I kill people and nothing happens!” screams Eunice (Amanda Plummer), a mas...
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Bro' Interrupted: Judd Apatow Talks And Funny People Reviewed
“It’s a look into what we would do with an insight into our own mortality”, offers director Jud...
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