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Film Features
Samurai Of The Beholder: Kurosawa's Legacy Reassessed
Legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s samurai films have played a decisive role in...
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Blank Generation: Jim Jarmusch's Permanent Vacation
Permanent Vacation, the 1980 feature-length debut from American auteur Jim Jarmusch, is p...
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The Broken Nest: Satyajit Ray's Charulata reassessed
Of all Satyajit Ray’s films, his 1964 domestic drama Charulata (The Lonely Wife) was famo...
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"Too Much The Darkness" The Werner Herzog Soundtracks Of Popol Vuh
“As a German filmmaker after the war, we grew up as - not only me, but all my peers - we ...
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Strangeness Just Around The Corner: Quietus Writers On Studio Ghibli
Waking up on Monday to garbled – and, it turns out, less than accurate – reports that Jap...
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The Hidden Eye: Charlie Siskel On Finding Vivian Maier
Imagine winning over 100,000 photographs by an unknown female photographer in an auction....
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A Bigger Bloat: The Hollywood Blockbuster Taken To Task
One of the most significant milestones in recent cinema history occurred in a film you’re...
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Hair Comes Tomorrow: The Planet Of The Apes Films Reassesed
The Planet Of The Apes series has had a curious longevity. The original 1968 classic was ...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
The Damned United & A Handful Of Non-Shit Sports Films
Click here to see our gallery of Sports Films That Weren't Shit. For all the praise heaped upo...
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Anyone For Charlie? Bronson Reviewed
In only a few years on the scene, Vertigo Films has carved out quite a nice little niche for th...
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Watchmen Reviewed: Has Zack Snyder Killed The Comic Book Adaptation?
You probably know that Watchmen is a movie based on this totally awesome comic book that Alan M...
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Gran Torino And The Death Of The American Hero
Click here for our gallery of cinematic swan songs Legend has it that Laurence Olivier once to...
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F**K Reviewed & A Profanisaurus Of Cinema's Best Swearing
Click here for the Quietus Cinema Profanisaurus gallery In Britain, the half-time show at the 2...
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Bizarre Love Triangles on Film
See our gallery of Bizarre Love Triangles I'm always wary of films tagged with phrases like "c...
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Who Killed Nancy? New Sex Pistols Doc Reviewed
In a world supposedly transfixed by celebrity, now is maybe as good a time as any to exhume the...
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The Laughing Noam - Manufacturing Consent Revisited
Coincidentally, the night before watching this extensively expanded reissue of the 1992 documen...
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