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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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Midnight Meat Train: How Clive Barker's Latest Was Almost Derailed
The mighty Clive Barker returns to the big screen with an adaptation of one of his earliest sho...
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Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading: Reviewed
Last Oscar season, we saw supremely talented filmmakers get back to basics in order to snatch s...
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Sci-Fi in Translation: Dante 01 and La Antena
Its odd to think that the sci-fi film is an English-language phenomenon. There are several nota...
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The British Invasion: How to Break Hollywood as a British Actor
There is a delicious irony in Simon Pegg playing a British maverick selling out to Americans in...
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Revenge Of The ASBO: Eden Lake Reviewed
According to The Daily Mail the kids are running riot, stabbing wildly in the dark and all too ...
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Book-Film Adaptations: Win Tickets To Hear Toby Young Speak
While Hollywood scrounges through its couch cushions searching for that elusive shiny copper of...
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Heavy Metal In Baghdad: Reviewed
This documentary feature film sees Vice magazine take another step towards throwing off the per...
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Cockney Cold War: Guy Ritchie, RocknRolla and Russian Movie Villains
At first glance, Guy Ritchie’s latest film RocknRolla seems to be concocted from the same recip...
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