The Year So Far
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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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Michael Caine On New Film Is Anybody There?
You don't see old people much these days. I don't mean in real life of course; the streets are ...
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Wolverine Wanderer - X-Men Origins: Wolverine Reviewed
Alvin Stardust and friend Marvel Comics, the mighty beast that survived wars, recessions and in...
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Stroll On: The London Perambulator Reviewed
In the streets around the Whitechapel Gallery, groups on Jack the Ripper walking tours huddle t...
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Monster Mash-Up: Outlander Reviewed
115 minutes of disappearing ink. James Caviezel crash lands in a lake in 8th Century Scandinavi...
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Death March of the Penguins: Herzog's Encounters At The End Of The World
In one of his recent routines, Stewart Lee pointed out that March of the Penguins did such a ro...
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Spin Off: Armando Iannucci Speaks And In The Loop Reviewed
The recent Jacqui Smith porn-gate was further proof, if any were needed, that spin rules politi...
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Let The Right One In: New Vampire Film Reviewed
Vampires, I think we can all agree, have a long, tumultuous history when it comes to cinema: fr...
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Michael Winterbottom's Genova: Reviewed
Michael Winterbottom’s latest feature, Genova, is the newest addition to an oeuvre which, at th...
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