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Mapping Obsession: A Personal Vertigo Pilgrimage
It was a cool April morning in San Francisco. Just after 6am I stood in Claude Lane, betw...
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30 Years On: Q - The Winged Serpent Revisited
Frequently described as a maverick and an auteur, Larry Cohen is the type of filmmaker wh...
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FrightFest The 13th: The Cigarette Burns Report
To say it's a pilgrimage for some isn't to overstate FrightFest's importance. For 13 year...
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A Fair Coppola? Rumble Fish Reassessed
The presence of absence is everywhere in Rumble Fish, which was the second SE Hinton nove...
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Foley Cow! Berberian Sound Studio Director Peter Strickland Interviewed
A bloodcurdling scream lands on the wet sop of a demolished watermelon. The sudden clunk ...
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Bowiefest Preview: Absolute Beginners Revisited
"Now, my kids will watch anything, but they couldn't watch this. Nor could their friends....
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"We Were Engulfed By Acid Vapour" - Samsara's Mark Magidson Interviewed
A slaughterhouse. Prayers at Mecca. A sand mandala painstakingly created and then destroy...
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Truths And Lies: F For Fake Revisited
The re-release of Orson Welles' F for Fake this summer is a cause for celebration. Consid...
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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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