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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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Midnight Meat Train: How Clive Barker's Latest Was Almost Derailed
The mighty Clive Barker returns to the big screen with an adaptation of one of his earliest sho...
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Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading: Reviewed
Last Oscar season, we saw supremely talented filmmakers get back to basics in order to snatch s...
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Sci-Fi in Translation: Dante 01 and La Antena
Its odd to think that the sci-fi film is an English-language phenomenon. There are several nota...
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The British Invasion: How to Break Hollywood as a British Actor
There is a delicious irony in Simon Pegg playing a British maverick selling out to Americans in...
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Revenge Of The ASBO: Eden Lake Reviewed
According to The Daily Mail the kids are running riot, stabbing wildly in the dark and all too ...
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Book-Film Adaptations: Win Tickets To Hear Toby Young Speak
While Hollywood scrounges through its couch cushions searching for that elusive shiny copper of...
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Heavy Metal In Baghdad: Reviewed
This documentary feature film sees Vice magazine take another step towards throwing off the per...
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Cockney Cold War: Guy Ritchie, RocknRolla and Russian Movie Villains
At first glance, Guy Ritchie’s latest film RocknRolla seems to be concocted from the same recip...
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