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Film Features
Siegfried The Dragon Slayer: Die Nibelungen Revisited
Fritz Lang's epic adaptation of Die Nibelungen is five hours of ridiculous nonsense. But,...
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Wilder Combination: Keep The Lights On Director Ira Sachs Interviewed
Keep The Lights On, the new film by New York-based director Ira Sachs, tells the story of...
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30 Years On: Tenebrae Revisited
While it is now generally regarded as one of the Italian horror director's most accomplis...
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Capital Gains! London: The Modern Babylon Explored
In the year when London managed to not embarrass itself in front of the other Olympic kid...
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Don't Weave Me This Way: The Basket Case Trilogy Revisited
In a nutshell, Basket Case is a story about separation anxiety. Duane Bradley (the glorio...
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London Film Festival: Two Evenings With Don Coscarelli
Don Coscarelli, the cult writer-director behind Phantasm, Bubba Ho-Tep and The Beastmaste...
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25 Years On: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Reassessed
(NB: to avoid long exposition of a complex and sometimes contradictory narrative, this pi...
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30 Years On: The Thing Revisited
It's hard to believe but three decades have passed since John Carpenter unleashed his dar...
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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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