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25 Years On: Prince Of Darkness Revisited
Released in 1987, Prince of Darkness is the second part of what director John Carpenter h...
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From Pickpocket To The Qing Dynasty: A Jia Zhangke Primer
According to a recent profile in The Guardian, China's newly named leader Xi Jinping is s...
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Michael's Videos: Haneke And The Banality Of Evil
There is a moment in Michael Haneke's latest film, Amour, in which the wife, whose name –...
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20 Years On: Malcolm X Reassessed
On its release in November 1992, the long-awaited biopic of Malcolm X topped out at numbe...
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Goats Whitehead Soup: Charlie Is My Darling Revisited
Whether through savvy or serendipity the Rolling Stones have always been in the habit of ...
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"We Are Quite Savage Islanders" - Ben Wheatley Interviewed
The political theorist Hannah Arendt famously coined an immortal phrase to describe captu...
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BFI Uncut Season: Maîtresse Revisited
Barbet Schroeder's drama Maîtresse has been released on Blu-ray and DVD to coincide with ...
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A Real Guitar Hero: Jason Becker Interviewed
The word 'hero' has been bandied about far too much this year, thanks to the Olympics and...
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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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