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What to Watch this Week (26 Sep - 3 Oct)
What to stream this week: Luke Cage The MCU version of New York is getting pretty crowded. As well as the Avengers and Spider-Man on the big screen, the s... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Festivals
The 12 Best Films at BFI London Film Festival 2017
Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone) It's hard to imagine we'll see many more perfectly matched performances this year than the two delivered by Rebecca Spence and... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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What to Watch this Week (27 Mar-2 Apr)
Best new films in the Multiplex Free Fire Ben Wheatley returns with a great cast (Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Noah Taylor, Armie Hammer), he puts them i... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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London Film Festival: High-Rise and Tangerine
Tangerine Sean Baker’s Tangerine (★★★★) is a dazzling rush around the Sunset Strip, following Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez), a trans prostitute... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Videos
Scott Graham on Iona: video interview
Scottish filmmaker Scott Graham follows up his excellent debut, Shell, with Iona, which follows a young woman named Iona (Ruth Negga) and her son Bull (... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Films of 2017: Mid-year report
Moonlight Dir. Barry Jenkins How did the story of a gay black man from Miami, with a largely unknown cast, become a universally acclaimed box office hit ... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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The Skinny: Contributors Directory
As The Skinny goes on a break and waits for the situation outside to improve, the people who make this project what it is – the writers, photographers,... Read more »| Updated about 4 years ago -
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The 22 Must-See Films of 2016
From The Hateful Eight to the new Ghostbusters, these are the films we're most looking forward to in 2016 The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino) Released 8 ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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What to Watch this Week (18-24 July)
The best film and TV to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the latest Star Trek film, Star Trek Beyond, an... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Our Favourite British Films 2010-2015
What comes to your mind we you think 'British Cinema'? Do you picture a dour room with characters indulging in bittersweet conversations while drinking tea (... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Films of 2014: Aliens, A.I.s and Adolescence
1. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) Under the Skin is a film that shows you things you’ve never seen before. Jonathan Glazer’s extraordin... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Film in 2017: 24 films not to be missed
T2 (Danny Boyle) Released 27 Jan We’d be lying if we said we weren’t itching to see Rents, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie on the big screen once m... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Films of 2016: Mid-year report
Love & Friendship Dir. Whit Stillman It shouldn’t exactly be a shock that the year’s funniest film to date comes from American writer-dir... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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The Films of 2013: Girl Power
1. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater) The standout line of 2013 comes in the extended third act of its standout film, Richard Linklater’s second unex... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Light and Shade: The Films of 2012
1. The Raid (Gareth Evans) Vice-like expectation is nuanced only by punishing adrenalin in Gareth Evans’s Indonesian actioner The Raid. Rookie cop Ram... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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The Films of 2016: Love, Death and Aliens
Given recent votes, we half expected something racist and idiotic like Gerard Butler hokum Gods of Egypt to top this best films of the year poll. This drum t... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Films of 2015: Hippies, Road Warriors and STD Hauntings
Once again our writers draw lines in the cinematic sand to choose 2015's essential films. Our top ten has a curious gender divide: the male protagonists (The... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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The Films of 2015 so far: Our mid-year report
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller) Mad Max: Fury Road feels like a miracle; similar to “the green place” MacGuffin that Charlize Theron’... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Films of 2016: The Criminally Overlooked Films
Court is in session. On trial are the critics and audiences who gave short shrift to these great films. The plaintiffs range from overlooked gems (A Bigger S... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Films of 2015: Criminally Overlooked Movies
Beyond the Lights Dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood Why it's one of our overlooked movies of 2015: it went straight to DVD in the UK In a more sensible film cul... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago