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Graphic Novelist Neil Gaiman Interviewed
There's a great throwaway line in Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary's screenplay for 2007's Beowulf a...
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Flash Gordon, Queen And The Art Of The Rock OST
Flash OST When, in 1980, Queen were commissioned to soundtrack a high-camp movie adaptat...
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Trading Faces: 10 Body-Switching Movies
There are two standard-bearers for the high-concept, low-result comedy subgenre, twin statues a...
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Back From the Dead: The Best Resurrection Films For Easter
Easter is the most unremarkable of public holidays. It lacks the vicious and almost psychedelic...
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The Best Hollywood Hoaxes for April Fool's Day
Without a doubt, this April Fool's Day the best pranks will be taking place at the G20 summit i...
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ART WAR! An Appreciation Of The Films Of Jeff Keen
If you had to name Britain's contribution to the genre of avant-garde film you'd probably think...
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Inside The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari: A Classic Of Expressionist Cinema
In 1919 Robert Wiene, Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer couldn't have known that their tale of a dia...
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Mickey Rourke Interviewed: Plus Hollywood's Greatest Comebacks
I'm sitting there thinking this is the most complex movie star, possibly the most interesting h...
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Film Reviews
Lady In Dread: The Woman Reviewed
Staggering into frame, clutching a bleeding wound, feral, almost pre-civilisation, a woman st...
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Deep Cuts: Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In
Pedro Almodóvar - like his lead character in The Skin I Live In, the virtuoso plastic surgeon...
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In A Better World: Susanne Bier & Anders Thomas Jensen Profiled
Susanne Bier's Academy Award-winning In a Better World (Hævnen) is her fourth collaboration w...
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Benign Propaganda? Countdown to Zero and the Campaign Film
The title of documentary Countdown to Zero, out on DVD this week, simultaneously refers to tw...
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Rise Against: UK Protest Documentary Just Do It Reviewed
No, Just Do It is not a history of Nike, far from it. This documentary on "modern-day outlaws...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Sweetgrass Sweetgrass is a beautifully serene documentary that follows a flock of sheep as the...
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Simon Jablonski's Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column
Armadillo Janus Pedersen’s gripping fly-on-the-wall documentary of a group of young Danish sol...
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Where The Screens Have No Shame: Killing Bono Reviewed
David Essex OD-ed in his Spanish castle when success became too scary to handle in Stardust, No...
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