The Year So Far
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Film Features
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Film Features
Exorcising The Past: A Retrospective Chat With William Friedkin
When I spoke to William Friedkin back in May 1998, he was promoting the UK re-release of ...
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Saving Flags: British Sea Power Soundtrack The BFI Archive
How nations choose to remember themselves on film is always problematic, in the documenta...
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie Revisited
Comprising 198 episodes broadcast over 11 years, Mystery Science Theater 3000 (or MST3K t...
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Czech Great: An Appreciation Of Jan Švankmajer
"Švankmajer is 76 and I'm 72. We are still filmmakers, and we passionately need to shoot ...
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Roll Out The Barrel: The British Pub On Film Explored
Sprawling across two discs, propped up under the armpits by exhaustive, illustrated notes...
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Sex-Gore Netherworld: Nightbirds & The Body Beneath Disinterred
"When you watch an Andy Milligan movie you're in no doubt whose film you're watching," wr...
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"I'm Not That Kind Of Nerd" - Simon Pegg Interviewed
Simon Pegg is a man. A ruddy bloody bloke. When he greets me in his hotel he doesn't smel...
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Killer On The Loose: The Black Panther Reassessed
The political power of the traditional mass media may be fading in front of our eyes, but...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
Zack and Miri And The Sex Industry On The Silver Screen
Relocating from his New Jersey comfort zone to the not-entirely-dissimilar locale of snowy Pitt...
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Christmas On Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring The Flaming Lips
This is exactly what you would imagine a Flaming Lips feature film to be like. It is prepostero...
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Crap Horror Enters The 3rd Dimension: Scar 3D Reviewed
Long story short… some years ago, precocious teenager Joan and her friend accept hospitality fr...
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Did Oliver Stone Go Easy on George Bush? W. Reviewed
W., while intermittently amusing, is not what it could or should have been. Since Oliver Stone ...
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The Passion of Bobby Sands: Hunger Reviewed
Many films are made about brave individuals taking a stand against an unshakeable authority and...
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The Short Films of David Lynch: A Film by Film Review
davidlynch.com can be a scary place late at night. Shuffling aimlessly through its dark pages a...
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Quantum Of Solace Reviewed - Is It The Worst Bond Yet?
Pierce Brosnan once described the enduring appeal of the James Bond movies thus: “It’s the wo...
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Remembering Eraserhead, and 20 More of the Best Movie Posters Ever
I sometimes wish I hadn’t done a runner from my last house. Granted, I owed the obese landlord ...
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