The Year So Far
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Film Features
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Film Features
We Dream On Cardboard: Staff Benda Bilili's Rise From The Streets
It’s often said that football and music offer the two best escape routes out of poverty but, fo...
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Filming The Unfilmable: Joseph Strick's Adaptation of Joyce's Ulysses
For millions of people, June 16th is an important day. On this day, 107 years ago in 1904, tw...
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All Loud on the Eastern Front: Peckinpah's Cross of Iron Revisited
Orson Welles described it as the greatest war film ever made and Quentin Tarantino acknowledg...
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'Close Your Eyes Or You Won't See Anything' - Jan Švankmajer's Alice
Despite all their achievements, both artistic and commercial, Disney is guilty of many crimes...
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Criminal Mind: Angels Of Evil Kim Rossi Stuart Interviewed
Italian director Michele Placido’s Angels Of Evil, released in the UK on 27th May, is the lates...
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Simon Jablonski On The Best Of The Cannes Film Festival
Cannes exists as two co-existing film events: the one of rosé flooded yachts, endless sun, gl...
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Loving The Rope: Lars Von Trier's Advance Party Project
Red Road Known for his mischievous nature (and the odd ill-advised comment), Dogme 95 directo...
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Joe Cornish Discusses Attack The Block
Joe Cornish’s feature debut Attack The Block is a chase round a council block that gives a ve...
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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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