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Film Features
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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Hammer Time! A Vintage Horror Blu-ray Bonanza
Few names are as synonymous with horror cinema in general, but Hammer Horror in particula...
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Beyond The Magical Mystery Tour: Apple Films Explored
On the 27th of December 1967, Paul McCartney put in a hastily arranged appearance on The ...
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I Am Iron Man! Tetsuo And The Cinema Of Shinya Tsukamoto
It was surely inevitable that Shinya Tsukamoto's feature debut and London's premier venue...
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Best Served Cold: Lady Snowblood Revisited
"Yuki, you were born for vengeance, poor child – a child of the netherworld." These words...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
Lady In Dread: The Woman Reviewed
Staggering into frame, clutching a bleeding wound, feral, almost pre-civilisation, a woman st...
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Deep Cuts: Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In
Pedro Almodóvar - like his lead character in The Skin I Live In, the virtuoso plastic surgeon...
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In A Better World: Susanne Bier & Anders Thomas Jensen Profiled
Susanne Bier's Academy Award-winning In a Better World (Hævnen) is her fourth collaboration w...
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Benign Propaganda? Countdown to Zero and the Campaign Film
The title of documentary Countdown to Zero, out on DVD this week, simultaneously refers to tw...
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Rise Against: UK Protest Documentary Just Do It Reviewed
No, Just Do It is not a history of Nike, far from it. This documentary on "modern-day outlaws...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Sweetgrass Sweetgrass is a beautifully serene documentary that follows a flock of sheep as the...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Armadillo Janus Pedersen’s gripping fly-on-the-wall documentary of a group of young Danish sol...
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Where The Screens Have No Shame: Killing Bono Reviewed
David Essex OD-ed in his Spanish castle when success became too scary to handle in Stardust, No...
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