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25 Years On: Street Trash Revisited
The early 1980s was a beautiful time. Before the internet there was no easy access to rev...
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"Ghosts Are Scarier Than A Guy With An Axe" - C Robert Cargill Talks Sinister
At FrightFest 2012 one of the real scare-a-thons was a good ol' fashioned ghost story: Si...
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Sophocles, So Good: Oedipus Rex Revisited
This double-disc Blu-ray/DVD package offers an ideal opportunity to assess the place of O...
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50 Years On: The Trial Revisited
It's no surprise that Orson Welles was drawn to adapting The Trial for the screen. The tw...
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"It's Not A Stunt To Get Sued" - Big Boys Gone Bananas!* Director Talks
Some of this century's best documentaries so far have been those that shine a light onto ...
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Big Topo: Santa Sangre Revisited
The first thing to say about Alejandro Jodorowsky's Santa Sangre is that it is an incredi...
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20 Years On: Man Bites Dog Revisited
On its initial release, in the same year that Reservoir Dogs drew similar fire, C'est arr...
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Cinematograph Preview: John Pearse's Moviemakers Disinterred
It takes a very impressive commitment to obscurity to elude even the terrifyingly thoroug...
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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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