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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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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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