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We the undersigned do solemnly swear that we will do everything within our...
A year and a half ago, Kenneth Lonergan’s masterful Margaret was rescued from obscurity after British critics turned their backs on their mostly apathetic US colleagues and took the film under their...
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First they came for the rape simulations…
One of the most reassuring aspects of the British Board of Film Classification has always been its limited remit. The fact that the board’s control extends only as far as the cinema, the video shop...
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If we want documentaries to get better, we need to stop giving them a free pass
You might remember a little over a month ago when I returned from Sheffield Doc/Fest and wrote this piece arguing that documentary filmmaking was in a bit of a rut. Well, along with everything else I...
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A memo to Jeanne McCarthy, casting director on the upcoming Vince Vaughn...
This is Jack Reynor, from What Richard Did. This is Chris Pratt, from Parks and Recreation. These two men look alike. Here they are looking alike, in Delivery Man. In fact, they look so alike that...
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Explain this one, atheists: EuroTrip coming to Blu-ray on December 3rd
I don’t think it would be boastful or misleading to say that I’ve done more to further the cause of the 2004 teen sex comedy EuroTrip than any other human being living or dead, and that includes the...
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Feeling a million years old at the London YouTube Space
Odd as it seems, I don’t think I’ve ever really understood YouTube. Actually, let me rephrase that: I’ve never really understood the YouTube community. Sure, I can hit play on an embedded Thor 2...
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The most important piece of information we’ve yet learned about Lars von...
Much has been made of this recently released third clip from Lars von Trier’s forthcoming ode to fucking Nymphomaniac, taken from the film’s third ‘chapter’, Mrs. H. Critics have noted that the scene...
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Something like a defence of Christopher Tookey, as he prepares to leave the...
Despite my complicity in maintaining a minor feud with the guy for almost four years now, I have in all honesty developed something of a cordial acquaintance with the Daily Mail‘s chief film critic...
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#Mitty, and other hashtags that are screwing with our movie titles
Hidden amongst the 1950s gender politics and questionable facial hair of Robin Thicke’s now infamous Blurred Lines video is a lone, blindingly contemporary touch. The hashtag #THICKE appears...
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Teenage boys search for ‘big tits’ online, and other revelations from the...
Among the many thousands of public domain works freely available from the Internet Archive are most of the teen delinquency movies of the 1950s — films like Teenage Thunder and Assassin of Youth that...
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8 amazingly self-righteous quotes from the berk who called 911 on a cellphone...
In the major leagues of Acting Like A Self-Important Jackass Under The Guise Of Being A Man Of The People, Kevin Smith is a hard man to eclipse. But earlier this week, the man pictured alongside Smith...
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Eccentric PR gifts of our time: Metrodome sent me an adopted pig named...
Back in August, a few days before my birthday, I received a delicate little handwritten letter, with my address scribbled on the front in that delightful wobbly scrawl that seems to be reserved...
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5 dazzlingly wanky quotes from ES Magazine’s Douglas Booth profile
Cinema, look upon your future king. The man you see above — whose head is so full of important thoughts that he has to prop it up at all times with a spare hand — is Douglas Booth, the 21-year-old...
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Six things Kill Your Darlings (and every other Beat Generation movie) would...
The London Film Festival kicks off today, which means a veritable avalanche of hugely anticipated films will be clogging up the capital’s finest cinemas (and the Cineworld Trocadero) for the next two...
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An exhaustive list of Xavier Dolan’s many, many jobs
24-year-old prodigy/irritant Xavier Dolan brings his fourth film Tom at the Farm to the London Film Festival this week, and I’m pleased to report that it’s every ounce the Dolan we know and love:...
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I have absolutely nothing to say about this poster for the new Wes Anderson...
… I just knew how nice it would look against a white background.
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2013′s best paragraph, courtesy of Gabriela Gutentag — press representative...
Director Michael Bay and the cast and crew of “Transformers: Age of Extinction” completed their first day of production in Hong Kong today October 17, 2013, after four and a half months of filming in...
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Michel Gondry’s new ‘animated conversation’ with Noam Chomsky looks...
Documentary isn’t a genre, it’s a form, and only just. Insist as Netflix might, it’s just not fair to bundle together The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, Muscle Shoals and Project Wild Thing under the...
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Anatomy of a ‘Blue is the Warmest Colour’ review
This steamy production still, which handily implies nudity without actually showing any. Opening paragraph detailing Blue Is The Warmest Colour‘s troubled production history. This should read somewhat...
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Film review quotes are the DVD distributor’s playthings
Above is the American DVD art for The Expelled, a ropey British horror movie released in the UK a few years back under the entirely Google-proof title F. On the bottom of the artwork you’ll note a...
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