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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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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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