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Cut! Not Enough Hollywood Directors Know When To Quit
In his last major film, Orson Welles mused on the inevitable death of all artists, “Our s...
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Films For Music: The Pet Shop Boys' It Couldn't Happen Here Revisited
The rise of the music video coincided with the rise of the VHS – inevitably, the two quic...
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Films Through The Window: The Cinema Of Bruno Dumont
Almost two years ago to the day, Bruno Dumont’s sixth feature, Hors Satan, received its p...
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Alien Charisma: The Creatures Of Ray Harryhausen
For all lovers of adventure films, Ray Harryhausen is one of the most magically charged n...
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New Maps Of Hell: Why Evil Dead Fails To Bring The Fear
I've got to admit to being pretty excited by the idea of Fede Alvarez's take on The Evil ...
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Films For Music: Neil Young's Human Highway Reappraised
December 1985, a courthouse in Los Angeles. Sally Kirkland has filed a lawsuit against De...
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"Feared & Respected": The English National Character In Sightseers
Ben Wheatley's Sightseers, available now on DVD, is many things: a funny, shocking road m...
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Things Learned At The London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Joseph Burnett writes The Empire Never Ended Sci-fi fans might recognise the above stat...
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Film Reviews
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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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