The Year So Far
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Film Features
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A Town Called Walker: Point Blank Reappraised
He is, of course, called Walker. No first name. Just Walker. And in the key early scene, ...
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Movement In Light: The Cinema Of Man Ray
Man Ray was a multimedia artist best known for his portrait photography, yet despite his ...
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In Search Of Divine: A Retrospective
The late 1960s in America was a time of shifting attitudes towards sex, homosexuality, dr...
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The Dark Side Of Normal: Yorgos Lanthimos Interviewed
In Dogtooth, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos pushed black comedy towards horror in depict...
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Django Fever: A Hidden History Of Django Unchained
Since the release of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, there has been a storm of conf...
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Picturing the Land Beyond: The Films of Penny Woolcock
It’s a sign of Penny Woolcock’s astonishing work rate that she premiered not one, but two...
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Forbidden Games And Beyond: René Clément On DVD
This week sees the arrival of four films onto DVD from the French filmmaker René Clément....
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Deneuve-Shredding: Repulsion Revisited
"The producers were used to producing porn." Catherine Deneuve For a film that so brilli...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
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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