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Film Features
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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
Simon Jablonski's Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Ballast By locating the story within a remote, dusty bubble – seemingly far from the reaches o...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Patagonia There must have been something swooning round the collective Welsh consciousness ove...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Confessions As a storyteller, Tetsuya Nakashima is unique in cinema. Outlandish and horrific s...
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Odd Events In Country Houses: Never Let Me Go Reviewed
The country house is enjoying quite the televisual renaissance. Over the last year we’ve had Ti...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
The Fighter This isn’t strictly a boxing film. It’s about boxing in a similar way that The God...
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The Sins Of The Father: Lemmy The Movie
If quantum theory is be believed then there’s no doubt a film about Lemmy doing the rounds in a...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
NEDS A violently gripping portrayal of gang culture in 1970s Glasgow, NEDS examines in subvers...
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Friday Film Round-Up: Gasland, Blue Valentine & Travellers Reviewed
Gasland The great Western didn't die or lose relevance; it just morphed and transmuted into th...
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