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Film Features
Jungle VIP: The Secret Behind Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
Four decades is a long time to keep a secret. Sure, that silence has been bought - and at...
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A Map Of Growing Up: Stephen Lee Naish On The Bachelor Party
In the late eighties/early nineties my parents would often record films that were shown o...
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Poetry And Propaganda: Ten Lesser Known Films About The Great War
A few miles from where I sit typing this in Brighton, East Sussex, there is a care home c...
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Fight Cub: Marwan Kenzari and Nasrdin Dchar Talk Wolf
Dutch film maker Jim Taihuttu had the honour of closing this year’s Raindance Film Festiv...
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"The Real World Is What Excites Me The Most": Mike Leigh On Mr. Turner
It seems fitting that the biopic of one of Britain's greatest and most prolific artists s...
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Saw Losers: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Revisited
There have been many many films made over the years featuring unsuspecting young people g...
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Long Live The New Flesh: A Halloween Guide To Transgressive Horror
With Halloween here, it’s a good time to give some thought as to what it is that keeps br...
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Zarjaz! Paul Goodwin Talks Future Shock: The Story Of 2000AD
For certain folk of a certain stripe (and, ahem, a certain age), the British weekly scien...
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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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