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Film Features
Beauty, Art, Action: Paul Schrader's Male Martyrdom
Beauty In 1976, when Travis Bickle emerged from smoke and brass in a yellow chariot, he brough...
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Not All Men: Sex And Power In Last Night In Soho
A good girl is one who knows when to give up. She knows who to fear, who to fight, when to run ...
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Watching The World Go By: On Takeshi Kitano's A Scene At The Sea
A young man and woman sit on a granite wall, staring out across the man-made harbour in front o...
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Out Of The Ashes: The Evil Dead At 40
A handsome, middle-aged man grunts as he squeezes himself into a leather waist-cincher – the ex...
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Reel Sounds – Vol. 4: St. Vincent, Damien Dempsey And More At Doc’N Roll 2021
Two films that build on recent music documentaries that have set or pushed the bar in the way t...
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Elegant And Brutal: Todd Haynes On The Myth Of The Velvet Underground
First there is nothing. Then a drone against a black screen. The increasingly deranged squall v...
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Rare Hunks: Walter Hill's Southern Comfort At 40
Walter Hill never made topical films - at least not deliberately. Instead, the action stylist, ...
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Hired Tunes: Anatomy Of A James Bond Song
Songs. Bond songs. Spanning half a century and 25 tracks (plus plenty more that didn’t make the...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
Simon Jablonski's Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Ballast By locating the story within a remote, dusty bubble – seemingly far from the reaches o...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Patagonia There must have been something swooning round the collective Welsh consciousness ove...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Confessions As a storyteller, Tetsuya Nakashima is unique in cinema. Outlandish and horrific s...
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Odd Events In Country Houses: Never Let Me Go Reviewed
The country house is enjoying quite the televisual renaissance. Over the last year we’ve had Ti...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
The Fighter This isn’t strictly a boxing film. It’s about boxing in a similar way that The God...
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The Sins Of The Father: Lemmy The Movie
If quantum theory is be believed then there’s no doubt a film about Lemmy doing the rounds in a...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
NEDS A violently gripping portrayal of gang culture in 1970s Glasgow, NEDS examines in subvers...
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Friday Film Round-Up: Gasland, Blue Valentine & Travellers Reviewed
Gasland The great Western didn't die or lose relevance; it just morphed and transmuted into th...
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