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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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The Damned United & A Handful Of Non-Shit Sports Films
Click here to see our gallery of Sports Films That Weren't Shit. For all the praise heaped upo...
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Anyone For Charlie? Bronson Reviewed
In only a few years on the scene, Vertigo Films has carved out quite a nice little niche for th...
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Watchmen Reviewed: Has Zack Snyder Killed The Comic Book Adaptation?
You probably know that Watchmen is a movie based on this totally awesome comic book that Alan M...
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Gran Torino And The Death Of The American Hero
Click here for our gallery of cinematic swan songs Legend has it that Laurence Olivier once to...
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F**K Reviewed & A Profanisaurus Of Cinema's Best Swearing
Click here for the Quietus Cinema Profanisaurus gallery In Britain, the half-time show at the 2...
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Bizarre Love Triangles on Film
See our gallery of Bizarre Love Triangles I'm always wary of films tagged with phrases like "c...
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Who Killed Nancy? New Sex Pistols Doc Reviewed
In a world supposedly transfixed by celebrity, now is maybe as good a time as any to exhume the...
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The Laughing Noam - Manufacturing Consent Revisited
Coincidentally, the night before watching this extensively expanded reissue of the 1992 documen...
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