The Year So Far
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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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Film Reviews
Zack and Miri And The Sex Industry On The Silver Screen
Relocating from his New Jersey comfort zone to the not-entirely-dissimilar locale of snowy Pitt...
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Christmas On Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring The Flaming Lips
This is exactly what you would imagine a Flaming Lips feature film to be like. It is prepostero...
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Crap Horror Enters The 3rd Dimension: Scar 3D Reviewed
Long story short… some years ago, precocious teenager Joan and her friend accept hospitality fr...
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Did Oliver Stone Go Easy on George Bush? W. Reviewed
W., while intermittently amusing, is not what it could or should have been. Since Oliver Stone ...
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The Passion of Bobby Sands: Hunger Reviewed
Many films are made about brave individuals taking a stand against an unshakeable authority and...
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The Short Films of David Lynch: A Film by Film Review
davidlynch.com can be a scary place late at night. Shuffling aimlessly through its dark pages a...
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Quantum Of Solace Reviewed - Is It The Worst Bond Yet?
Pierce Brosnan once described the enduring appeal of the James Bond movies thus: “It’s the wo...
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Remembering Eraserhead, and 20 More of the Best Movie Posters Ever
I sometimes wish I hadn’t done a runner from my last house. Granted, I owed the obese landlord ...
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