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Nightcrawler
Screenwriter Dan Gilroy makes a ferocious directorial debut with Nightcrawler (which he also wrote), a unique hybrid of ghoulish comedy, L.A. noir, news medi... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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The Boxtrolls
An adaptation of Alan Snow’s novel Here Be Monsters!, stop-motion animation The Boxtrolls is a comedic fable set in and under a Victorian-era town whos... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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While We're Young
“For the first time, I didn’t feel like a child imitating an adult.” With While We're Young, writer-director Noah Baumbach bridges the gap ... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Kingsman: The Secret Service
Reuniting the director, chief screenwriter and source material scribe of Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman and Mark Millar respectively), Kingsman:... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Pale Moon
Set in the mid-1990s, not long after the burst of Japan’s economic bubble, Pale Moon follows Rika (Miyazawa), a demure housewife turned bank employee w... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Dearest
Based on one specific real life incident, Chinese drama Dearest concerns the aftermath of a child abduction in Shenzhen, China. Starting in 2009, Peter Chan&... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Man Up
British romantic comedy Man Up has an unfortunate title in both evoking an all-too tired phrase and being quite misleading, as it’s not some man-child ... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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A Must-Listen: The 'You Must Remember This' podcast
Aside from the usual idiosyncratic comedy fare, what tends to be most popular right now in the world of podcasting is either something in which big personali... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Bad Land: Road to Fury
Originally titled Young Ones for its US release, Bad Land: Road to Fury has seemingly received a name change in an attempt to capitalise on the hype surround... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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The Wolfpack
The Wolfpack profiles six homeschooled brothers who’ve lived their entire lives as shut-ins in a Manhattan housing project, a DVD collection their only... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Jurassic World
In one early sequence of Jurassic World, the apathetic older brother (Nick Robinson) of a pair of kids visiting the now fully-functional dinosaur theme park ... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: The Stanford Prison Experiment
The results of Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s famous and controversial 1971 psychological study, in which various Stanford University-attending males play-acted... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Pet Sights and Sounds: Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy
“I honestly grew up more as a Beatles guy than a Beach Boys guy, but I’ve admitted that to Brian, so he’s aware,” says Bill Pohlad wi... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: Liza, the Fox-Fairy
The directorial debut of Károly Ujj Mészáros, Liza, the Fox-Fairy, plays like a Hungarian cocktail of Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Roy Ander... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Alexander Skarsgård: “Even in a sex scene, you can’t show a butt or a nipple”
Breaking through into public consciousness with the one-two HBO series punch of Generation Kill and True Blood, Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård&rsquo... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Pickup on South Street
Sam Fuller’s punchy New York noir Pickup on South Street is lean and mean, yet also contains a curiously jovial quality to its portrait of post-war sca... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Office
In the crime and caper films of director Johnnie To, there’s always been a rhythmic element to how he composes procedural action or violent executions;... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Ben Wheatley on High-Rise
With his latest movie, Ben Wheatley takes on JG Ballard science-fiction classic High-Rise. Ahead of the film's screening at Glasgow Film Festival, the genre ... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Your Name
This body-swap comedy has been making Studio Ghibli-level money at the Japanese box-office, and now UK anime fans can see what all the fuss is about Japanes... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Lady Macbeth
Not another spin on 'The Scottish Play', William Oldroyd’s tense, darkly comic feature debut is actually an adaptation of a 19th century Russian n... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Neruda
Neruda, Pablo Larraín’s third film in the space of two years, is in some ways a blending of the modes of his prior Chilean filmography and his o... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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A Snapshot of American Independent Cinema in 2017
Returning for its fifth instalment (and second in a row at the lavish Picturehouse Central), the team behind this year’s Sundance London gave British a... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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The Big Sick
A regular writing collaborator of David Wain (on the likes of Wet Hot American Summer and The State), Michael Showalter’s own directorial eff... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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Hounds of Love
Aside from sharing a title, thriller Hounds of Love has little obviously in common with the Kate Bush song and album of the same name, though it ends with an... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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Bong Joon-ho on Okja & Netflix
“Someone said it’s very difficult to define, this movie. For me, that is the biggest praise.” South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho is speaki... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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Columbus
Columbus, the masterful feature debut of director Kogonada – an academic turned video essayist for the likes of Sight & Sound –&nbs... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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When Marnie Was There
When Marnie Was There is being billed as the final in-house film from animation giant Studio Ghibli. A European co-production, The Red Turtle, has just ... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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A Snapshot of American Independent Cinema in 2016
After taking a year off in 2015, the team behind Sundance London returned this year to give UK audiences a snapshot of what's cooking on the American indie s... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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It
When you have a movie where the main antagonistic force is based around toying with people’s fears, is it an inherent detriment if the film lacks a cer... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Call Me by Your Name
With A Bigger Splash, director Luca Guadagnino used an Italian summer as the backdrop for a vibrant, erotically charged clash of personalities. His latest ef... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago