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Film Features
The Missionary Imposition: Godland Reviewed
In Hlynur Pálmason’s visually rich, religiously potent Godland, the landscapes of Iceland are n...
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An Act Of Self-Defence: How To Blow Up A Pipeline Interview
“This is an act of self-defence,” says one of How To Blow Up A Pipeline's rag tag group of char...
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Stormy Weather And Cabin In The Sky: Pioneering Black Musicals At 80
“Celebrating the magnificent contribution of the colored race to the entertainment of the world...
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The Last Of Us: Post-War Anxiety In The Birds At 60
The birds are coming. Alfred Hitchcock’s third adaptation of a Daphne du Maurier story pivots f...
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Donkey Power: The History Of Cinema's Favourite Sidekick
The day before the 2023 Academy Award nominees were announced, Horse and Hound magazine ran a s...
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Hide And Seek: Pakistan's Remarkable Joyland
As Joyland begins, children chant a sing-song countdown as a close-up of a figure covered in a ...
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A Man's Job: Asif Kapadia And Akram Khan On Creature
Asif Kapadia, red-eyed and coiled with energy, is springing off to play five-a-side football. W...
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Long Live The New Flesh: Videodrome At 40
In Videodrome, technology professor Brian O'Blivion, famously based on media academic Marshall ...
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Film Reviews
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Film Reviews
The Friends Experiment: The Social Network Reviewed
Short of baby-kicking and puppy-murdering, there are few introductions that could endear an aud...
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Subprime Sequel: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
My favourite version of the Faust myth is Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. Marlowe’s work ...
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Of Tugs & Tides: Jersey's Branchage Film Festival 2010 In Review
There are not many festivals where, over the course of four days, you move from documentary fil...
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Don Your Rose-Tinted Glasses: Oliver Stone's South Of The Border
Oliver Stone seems to be under the impression that he's a journalist... Unfortunately for him...
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The Joy Of Text: Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' Comes To The Big Screen
It's hardly an easy sell: take Allen Ginsberg's hallucinatory epic poem 'Howl' and turn it into...
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Dream If You Wanna Go Faster: Inception Reviewed
In Tom DiCillo's 1995 indie hit Living In Oblivion, a hip but pretentious film director (Steve ...
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Bad Lieutenant Review & The Cult Classics Werner Herzog Should Remake Next
Check the weather forecast: is hell freezing over? That seems about more likely than Werner Her...
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Bad Upholstery & Vacant Silences: Samantha Morton's The Unloved Reviewed
She's a bit of an angel, really, Lucy Manvers. We first view the 11-year-old protagonist of The...
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