The Year So Far
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Film Features
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Frankly Madeira Don't Give A Damn: Micro International Film Festival
Maybe it was just my anticipation, or a keen sense of journalistic openness and duty, but...
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Still The Enemy Within: How Film & TV Dealt With The Miners' Strike
"Much as I admire Billy Elliot and anything that makes people aware of the strike, at the...
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The Extinction Of Reality: The Counselor Reassessed
When it was released in 2013, The Counselor drew reviews so scathing that they created a ...
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No Clear Duality: American Sniper And The Modern War Film
The awards season has delivered a decidedly mixed verdict on American Sniper. To the surp...
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Claudio With A Chance Of Pain: Simonetti On Profondo Rosso
Say 'Dario Argento' and people think 'Goblin'. Say 'Goblin' and people think 'Suspiria'. ...
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Stepping Into A Nightmare World: Animator Carla MacKinnon Interviewed
The London Short Film Festival (LSFF), currently running in venues throughout the city, h...
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The Maim Event - Johnny Ryan On The Prison Pit Animation
It's the simple things, innit? That's what they tell us. Those simple pleasures that sati...
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There's Something About Stanley: Kubrick's Strange Science Of Obsession
Kubrick’s Gold “The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.” ...
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Film Reviews
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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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