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Life Is Wasted On People: Loneliness, Sincerity And Noah Baumbach
In Mistress America, the newest comedy by Noah Baumbach and his second this year, freshma...
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Listen Up Philistines: Alex Ross Perry Interviewed
One of the best films of 2014, the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis, infuriated some au...
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Reels Of Steel: Metalheads In The Movies
Over the years, heavy metal has established itself as a stubbornly enduring facet of popular cu...
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The Stuff Of Legend: Lost Media In Kumiko The Treasure Hunter
The idea of the object is no longer just for artists. Human anxiety about the passing of ...
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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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Film Reviews
Lady In Dread: The Woman Reviewed
Staggering into frame, clutching a bleeding wound, feral, almost pre-civilisation, a woman st...
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Deep Cuts: Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In
Pedro Almodóvar - like his lead character in The Skin I Live In, the virtuoso plastic surgeon...
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In A Better World: Susanne Bier & Anders Thomas Jensen Profiled
Susanne Bier's Academy Award-winning In a Better World (Hævnen) is her fourth collaboration w...
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Benign Propaganda? Countdown to Zero and the Campaign Film
The title of documentary Countdown to Zero, out on DVD this week, simultaneously refers to tw...
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Rise Against: UK Protest Documentary Just Do It Reviewed
No, Just Do It is not a history of Nike, far from it. This documentary on "modern-day outlaws...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Sweetgrass Sweetgrass is a beautifully serene documentary that follows a flock of sheep as the...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Armadillo Janus Pedersen’s gripping fly-on-the-wall documentary of a group of young Danish sol...
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Where The Screens Have No Shame: Killing Bono Reviewed
David Essex OD-ed in his Spanish castle when success became too scary to handle in Stardust, No...
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