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Film Features
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Film Features
Much Ado About MacGuffin: David Bax On Suspect Plot Devices
Alfred Hitchcock understood how to make a good movie in a way that’s almost distressing. He was...
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Oil City Confidential, Dr Feelgood, Wilko Johnson And A Spot Of Word Association
Surely the reductive term pub rock must be obliterated once and for all by the arrival of Oil C...
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The Blockheads On Ian Dury Biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
"I’ve been there and I know / Lots of other ways…" "There are a couple of ways to avoid death,...
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Warren Ellis: The Road And The Trials Of The Soundtrack
The past few years have been fruitful for the creative partnership of Nick Cave and Warren Elli...
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The Art Of Short Films
Sea Front by Stuart Moore It has never been easier than it is now to produce a low-budget feat...
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A Serious Man & The Greatest Story Never Told By Hollywood
The Coen brothers' new film is loosely based on what is purportedly the oldest book in the Bibl...
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The Political Joseph Losey: Another Side Of The Cult Director
One might be forgiven for thinking that there were two Joseph Loseys. His obsession with mirror...
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Sectioned Cinema: Wojciech Has and The Hour-Glass Sanatorium
One of many questions on the lips of cinema-goers lucky enough to have made it along to The Sur...
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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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