The Year So Far
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Film Features
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Film Features
False Negative: John Waters Interviewed
I first worked with John Waters when I brought him to San Francisco’s Castro Theater in 2001 to...
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We Lost Dancing: How Fred again.. And Ruben Östlund Found Each Other
There is little more infuriating in the world of art consumption when someone has a good idea b...
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Spectacular Spectacular: On Baz Luhrmann's Elvis
Baz Luhrmann was never going to make a biopic. His film about Elvis Presley, the highest-sellin...
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This Much I Know To Be True: Nick Cave And Warren Ellis' New Film On Grief
Nick Cave doesn’t seem like the kind of man to take government advice to heart, but that’s what...
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Hopes For Paradise: Terrence Davies and The Long Day Closes
Years ago, my Dad was trying to explain to me how it felt to see Lawrence of Arabia in the cine...
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Let Go: Franz Rogowski On Great Freedom
When I sit down with Franz Rogowski at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2021, it’s the secon...
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Let's Not Rush: A Love Letter To Trains On Screen
For almost as long as it has existed, cinema has been just as obsessed with trains as sweet Tik...
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Fuck Fame: Charli XCX, A-ha And Destructive Fandom
Somewhere in the metaverse, a popstar echoes the loneliness of her LGBTQ+ fans during Covid loc...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
Avatar 3D Review - "More Polished Than Hugh Hefner's Cock"
It’s been a long time since James Cameron directed a feature film - 12 years, in fact, since he...
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Where The Wild Things Are: On The Couch With Spike Jonze
Where the Wild Things Are, the new adaptation by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers of Maurice Sendak'...
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Lo-Fi Fright: Paranormal Activity Reviewed
What makes a good horror film? Is it the the blood or the guts? The breasts or the beasts? The ...
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We Live In Public - A Warhol For Our Times?
Does Josh Harris - self-described as "one of the first great artists of the twenty-first centur...
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Poster Children: Died Young, Stayed Pretty Reviewed
Do you remember the music posters you tacked to your teenage bedroom wall? Did the posters’ ico...
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All Tomorrow's Parties The Film Reviewed: The Triumph Of The Fans
From 2000 to 2004, I went to every single All Tomorrow's Parties festival held in this country....
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It's Grim Up North: Michael Winterbottom's Butterfly Kiss
“God’s forgotten me, I kill people and nothing happens!” screams Eunice (Amanda Plummer), a mas...
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Bro' Interrupted: Judd Apatow Talks And Funny People Reviewed
“It’s a look into what we would do with an insight into our own mortality”, offers director Jud...
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