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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
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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