The Year So Far
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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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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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