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
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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