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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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Escaping Suburban Ennui: Date Night And Other Burb Pics
If you are in your 20s and English, you may not really be familiar with the concept of a ‘date ...
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Kick Ass Film Review: Faint Hearted, Turn Tail
You probably already know this from the countless rants of foamy-mouthed TV newscasters, but ye...
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Reviewed
Time and time again, the film industry staggers in front of its collective audience like a remo...
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Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island Reviewed
Martin Scorsese has long had a habit of switching cinematic lanes in the wake of blanket acclai...
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Blur Doc No Distance Left To Run Reviewed
"Whoohoo! When I feel heavy metal..." Rockumentaries by their very nature start with the conce...
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Baiting The Daily Mail: A Prophet Reviewed
Will Self, accorded the job of writing an introduction to an updated translation of We by Yevge...
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Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes Reviewed
Pipe smoking? Check. Intellectual prowess? Check. Astute observations and forensic skills? Chec...
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Vice Documentary Swansea Love Story Reviewed
Over a period of six months filming Swansea’s drug-addicted youth, Leo Leigh (son of British au...
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