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The Quietus Blog From The Branchage International Film Festival
Quietus' Luke Turner and our film editor David Moats will be updating this blog throughout this w...
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Jeremy Deller On Depeche Mode: The Posters Came From The Walls
Let me show you the world in my eyes This is a film which, like the band whose following...
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Branchage Festival Preview - School's Out: What Shaped Lindsay Anderson's If....
The final scene in Lindsay Anderson's If.... is one of the most electrifying and incendiary in ...
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Branchage Film Festival: An Introduction To The Cinema Event Of The Year
Recent years have seen a proliferation in so-called ‘boutique’ music festivals, the British cou...
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A Silver Bullet To The Heart Of An American Werewolf In London
I'm American, from New York in fact. I love werewolves; can't wait for the upcoming Wolf Man fi...
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Beating Around The Bush: The Dubya Era In Films
Many critics have rightly pointed out that GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra is essentially Team Americ...
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John Hughes Obituary and Ten Best Films
John Hughes was often referred to, and not incorrectly, as the voice of a generation. But he ne...
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Cigarette Burns: Turkey Shoot And The Pleasure Of Killing
"I like killing people because it is so much fun it is more fun than killing wild game in the f...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
Zack and Miri And The Sex Industry On The Silver Screen
Relocating from his New Jersey comfort zone to the not-entirely-dissimilar locale of snowy Pitt...
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Christmas On Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring The Flaming Lips
This is exactly what you would imagine a Flaming Lips feature film to be like. It is prepostero...
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Crap Horror Enters The 3rd Dimension: Scar 3D Reviewed
Long story short… some years ago, precocious teenager Joan and her friend accept hospitality fr...
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Did Oliver Stone Go Easy on George Bush? W. Reviewed
W., while intermittently amusing, is not what it could or should have been. Since Oliver Stone ...
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The Passion of Bobby Sands: Hunger Reviewed
Many films are made about brave individuals taking a stand against an unshakeable authority and...
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The Short Films of David Lynch: A Film by Film Review
davidlynch.com can be a scary place late at night. Shuffling aimlessly through its dark pages a...
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Quantum Of Solace Reviewed - Is It The Worst Bond Yet?
Pierce Brosnan once described the enduring appeal of the James Bond movies thus: “It’s the wo...
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Remembering Eraserhead, and 20 More of the Best Movie Posters Ever
I sometimes wish I hadn’t done a runner from my last house. Granted, I owed the obese landlord ...
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