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Star Striped Tragedy: Captain Phillips Reassesed
There’s a startling moment at the end of John Singleton’s 1995 campus biopic Higher Learn...
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Cinematographic Alchemy: Cocteau's La Belle Et La Bete Reassessed
Jean Cocteau opens his film adaptation of the classic fairytale Beauty And The Beast like...
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Cosmic Possibility & Utter Weirdness: Revisiting Georges Franju
Informed by the past yet still strikingly modern, the films of Georges Franju seem to exi...
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Blood Sucking Freaks: Herzog's Nosferatu Revisited
The BFI’s immense season Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film is open now, and the first strand...
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A Brave New World Of Sound: Joakim Sundström Interviewed
“A brave new world of sound awaits you.” These are the words that greet sound engineer Gi...
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Talking A Load Of Rap: Jeanie Finlay Talks The Great Hip Hop Hoax
There's an oft-repeated, possibly apocryphal, tale concerning Charlie Chaplin and his dec...
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Films For Music: Frank Zappa's Cinematic Legacy
"One of the worst films in the entire history of cinema, a criticism I can confidently as...
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Things Learned At: Nowe Horyzonty Film Festival 2013
I don't think I'd ever been considered important enough to count as 'Industry' before. An...
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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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