The Year So Far
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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
Development Hell: High-Rise Reviewed
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Kaufman-nequin: Anomalisa Reviewed
Charlie Kaufman’s script for Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich, a film about a puppeteer who d...
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Senate Mental Journey: Hail Caesar! Reviewed
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Load Of Old Poo-l? Deadpool Reviewed
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The Sound Of Breaking Glass: The Revenant Reviewed
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Maddin-ing: The Forbidden Room Reviewed
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Death Of A Party: Blur - New World Towers Reviewed
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Then We Take Berlin: Bridge Of Spies Reviewed
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