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Aubrey Plaza and Jeff Baena discuss zombie comedy Life After Beth
“Yes, breaking shit was very interesting to me; I really wanted to break some shit.” Aubrey Plaza has just been asked whether the physical aspect... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Youth of the Beast
In 1968, Japanese director Seijun Suzuki saw his long-standing contract with the Nikkatsu studio terminated for repeatedly turning routine potboiler scripts ... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Exodus: Gods and Kings
In one key scene of Exodus: Gods and Kings, Ramses (Joel Edgerton) addresses exiled foster brother Moses’ (Christian Bale) suggestion to free the Hebre... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Still Alice
Still Alice deviates from most dramas concerned with Alzheimer’s in adopting the point of view of the sufferer, rather than devastated loved ones. Juli... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Following Not Quite Hollywood, his 2008 documentary about the Australian exploitation cinema of the 1970s and 80s, writer-director Mark Hartley returns to pr... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Two for the Road
Viewed through a contemporary prism, one might pithily describe 1967's Two for the Road as being like the entire Before trilogy compacted into one featu... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Monsters: Dark Continent
In the vein of the genre switch-up between Alien and Aliens, Monsters sequel Dark Continent is an action-orientated take on the setup of the more modest orig... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: White Bird in a Blizzard
Closer in spirit to his Mysterious Skin than The Doom Generation, White Bird in a Blizzard sees Gregg Araki adapting a Laura Kasischke novel and applying his... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Tokyo Tribe
Bringing “slammin’ beats from the ass-end of hell,”, Sion Sono’s manga adaptation Tokyo Tribe is a hysterical hybrid of The Warriors,... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Harlock Space Pirate
A new animated take on a classic manga property, Harlock Space Pirate sees an immortal spaceship captain roam a colonised galaxy, against the backdrop of a s... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Tomorrowland: A World Beyond
With The Iron Giant and The Incredibles, director Brad Bird demonstrated a keen interest in retrofuturism, a creative trend in which futuristic technology is... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: Scottish Mussel
Scottish Mussel follows Martin Compston as a Glaswegian schemer moonlighting as an illegal pearl fisher in the Highland streams, with the help of his bu... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: Inside Out
With Inside Out, their 15th animated feature, animation house Pixar take a detour to avoid some of the visual and storytelling beats that have made even thei... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Horse Money
To offer a reductive description of Pedro Costa’s Horse Money for those unfamiliar with it or him as a filmmaker, imagine the following: Labyrinth, exc... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Green Room
Punk v Nazi thriller from the mind that brought you Blue Ruin Green Room, Jeremy Saulnier’s follow-up to Blue Ruin, trades the latter’s revenge ... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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X-Men: Apocalypse
X-Men: Apocalypse is plagued with problems but the new blood shine, even if some of the old guard (Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence) look pretty bore... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Hirokazu Kore-eda on Our Little Sister
With films like I Wish and Nobody Knows, Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda has proven himself the modern master of quiet family dramas. His latest, Our Littl... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Our Little Sister
Based on manga Umimachi Diary, Our Little Sister sees three upwardly mobile adult sisters attend the funeral of the father who left their family ye... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Colossal
Spanish writer-director Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes) makes a bid for the American mainstream with Colossal, a high-concept indie that’s part ... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Pablo Larraín rethinks the biopic with Neruda
When it comes to productivity, there aren't many high-profile directors who come close to Japan’s Takashi Miike (who has made approximately five featur... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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A Ghost Story
Following his breakthrough feature in 2013, the (sorta) neo-Western Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, director David Lowery took an unexpected career turn in h... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Edgar Wright on car chase thriller Baby Driver
“I was going to say I’ve not been offered a musical, but that’s not true. I think if it was the right thing and I thought I could do it wel... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Moon Dogs
Moon Dogs sees a young Scotsman, Welshman and Irishwoman venture on a road trip from Shetland to Glasgow. Michael (Parry-Jones) wants to reunite with his inc... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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The Firm
Since his untimely death in 1990 at the age of 54, Alan Clarke has been something of a perennially underrated figure in the landscape of British cinema histo... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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The BFG
Despite being set within a world of giants, Spielberg's adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG thrives on its small moments When published in 1982, Roald ... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Author: The JT LeRoy Story
A decade on from The Devil and Daniel Johnston, documentarian Jeff Feuerzeig returns to the well of artists whose creativity flirts with oft-extreme for... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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A Quiet Passion
After a decade of difficulties with projects stuck in development hell, that British director Terence Davies now brings us his third feature in six year... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Free Fire
Shades of Sam Peckinpah in this star-studded action film about an arms deal gone wrong from Sightseers director Ben Wheatley Jean-Luc Godard once said that ... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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LFF 2016: The Handmaiden
Park Chan-wook's latest, based on Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith, is a darkly comic study in sex, class and Japanese-Korean relations After a polarising fo... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Illegitimate
The predominate theme of Illegitimate, from Romanian director Adrian Sitaru, is that of love in extreme scenarios. One of these is delivered immediately in t... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago