The Year So Far
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Film Features
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Film Features
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
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Film Reviews
The Friends Experiment: The Social Network Reviewed
Short of baby-kicking and puppy-murdering, there are few introductions that could endear an aud...
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Subprime Sequel: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
My favourite version of the Faust myth is Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. Marlowe’s work ...
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Of Tugs & Tides: Jersey's Branchage Film Festival 2010 In Review
There are not many festivals where, over the course of four days, you move from documentary fil...
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Don Your Rose-Tinted Glasses: Oliver Stone's South Of The Border
Oliver Stone seems to be under the impression that he's a journalist... Unfortunately for him...
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The Joy Of Text: Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' Comes To The Big Screen
It's hardly an easy sell: take Allen Ginsberg's hallucinatory epic poem 'Howl' and turn it into...
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Dream If You Wanna Go Faster: Inception Reviewed
In Tom DiCillo's 1995 indie hit Living In Oblivion, a hip but pretentious film director (Steve ...
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Bad Lieutenant Review & The Cult Classics Werner Herzog Should Remake Next
Check the weather forecast: is hell freezing over? That seems about more likely than Werner Her...
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Bad Upholstery & Vacant Silences: Samantha Morton's The Unloved Reviewed
She's a bit of an angel, really, Lucy Manvers. We first view the 11-year-old protagonist of The...
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