The Year So Far
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Hounslow's Finest: Bend It Like Beckham At 20
There was something unique about growing up in Hounslow in the late ‘90s. A stone’s throw from ...
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Comeback Kid: Happy Anniversary, Robert Altman
The River Seine has more poetry than the Los Angeles River. Flanked by students clutching cigar...
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The Most Powerful Man In America: The Godfather At 50
The worlds of the Mafia and American politics are inseparable. The 20th century was when Americ...
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Icarus Also Flew: Fitzcarraldo And Herzog's Blockbuster Ambition
Film and spectacle have always worked hand in hand, but over time the idea of a truly spectacul...
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Dreamweaver: How Wayne’s World’s Cassandra Broke The Comedy Mould
Thirty years ago, Penelope Spheeris directed a comedy that would break the genre’s mould thanks...
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Bloodsuckers: Vampires, Antisemitism And Nosferatu At 100
Almost exactly 100 years ago, F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu helped establish the vampire as one of th...
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Girl Interrupted: Revisiting Jane Arden's The Other Side Of The Underneath
In 1972, the feminist actress, dramaturge, writer, director and singer Jane Arden spent a few m...
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Against The Tides: 60 Years Of Kobayashi's Brutal Harakiri
The image of a character committing seppuku or harakiri – a form of ritual suicide by self-dise...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
The Friends Experiment: The Social Network Reviewed
Short of baby-kicking and puppy-murdering, there are few introductions that could endear an aud...
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Subprime Sequel: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
My favourite version of the Faust myth is Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. Marlowe’s work ...
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Of Tugs & Tides: Jersey's Branchage Film Festival 2010 In Review
There are not many festivals where, over the course of four days, you move from documentary fil...
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Don Your Rose-Tinted Glasses: Oliver Stone's South Of The Border
Oliver Stone seems to be under the impression that he's a journalist... Unfortunately for him...
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The Joy Of Text: Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' Comes To The Big Screen
It's hardly an easy sell: take Allen Ginsberg's hallucinatory epic poem 'Howl' and turn it into...
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Dream If You Wanna Go Faster: Inception Reviewed
In Tom DiCillo's 1995 indie hit Living In Oblivion, a hip but pretentious film director (Steve ...
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Bad Lieutenant Review & The Cult Classics Werner Herzog Should Remake Next
Check the weather forecast: is hell freezing over? That seems about more likely than Werner Her...
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Bad Upholstery & Vacant Silences: Samantha Morton's The Unloved Reviewed
She's a bit of an angel, really, Lucy Manvers. We first view the 11-year-old protagonist of The...
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