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Why Suspiria Still Has The Perfect Horror Opening Sequence

Joseph Bullock
December 28, 2020
Analysis, Close-Up, Features
Watch the opening sequence of Suspiria here: part 1 & part 2 A masterpiece of the genre, and certainly the most famous Italian example, Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977) remains a uniquely haunting...
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How Tangled’s Flynn Rider Perfected the Disney Prince

Alex Goldstein
November 19, 2020
Close-Up, Features, Nostalgia, One Off
Tangled has always had a bit of a mixed reputation. Although cinema-going audiences treated it fairly kindly, it struggled to make back its mammoth budget. Critics shrugged at it - complaining it was a little...
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Ammonite, Nomadland and Female Freedom

Alex Goldstein
November 9, 2020
Analysis, Close-Up, Features
So many women’s stories are about freedom: choosing it, fearing it, paying for it. At the London Film Festival this year, two of the most talked about features - Nomadland and Ammonite - had the same...
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Aaron Sorkin’s Demons and Better Angels

Anna McKibbin
October 10, 2020
Close-Up, Features, Opinion
Eight years ago, Kevin Porter posted a video entitled “Sorkinisms – A Supercut”. Over 1.5 million people have watched this video which features different Aaron Sorkin-penned characters uttering the same...

How Fritz Lang Broke Hollywood

Joseph Bullock
October 5, 2020
Analysis, Close-Up, Features
Fritz Lang created some of the most indelible images in cinema. Most come from his German films: the rotund spacecraft from Woman in the Moon (1929), Peter Lorre’s panicking child-killer branded with a...
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Inception and the Time of Capitalism

Anahit Behrooz
July 14, 2020
Analysis, Close-Up, Features
Once upon a time, so my head canon goes, a drunk philosophy fresher told Christopher Nolan that time is a construct and Nolan has never looked back. The majority of his films are characterised by their focus...

The Changing Face of Pedro Almodóvar’s Autofiction

Joseph Bullock
July 9, 2020
Analysis, Close-Up, Features
We have always seen glimpses of Pedro Almodóvar in his films. Most notably in Law of Desire (1987) and Bad Education (2004), he has used stories of filmmakers in a self-reflective way to construct deeply...
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The Apartment and How to Escape Toxic Masculinity

Katy Moon
June 25, 2020
Analysis, Close-Up, Features
In a conversation between Fran Kubelik and C.C. Baxter, the two very broken people at the centre of Billy Wilder’s classic comedy drama The Apartment, Fran (Shirley MacClaine) sums up the dichotomy of the...
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The Transformative Legacy of Psycho

Rob Salusbury
June 9, 2020
Analysis, Close-Up, Features
Has there ever been a film that so greatly influenced and changed the course of a single genre as Psycho? With one swish of a shower curtain and a chorus of shrieking violins, Alfred Hitchcock’s bold and...
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Lenny Abrahamson And The Longing For The Unreachable

Rafaela Sales Ross
May 26, 2020
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Towards the end of Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank (2014), Jon (Domhnall Gleeson) glances at Frank Sidebottom’s band one last time before turning his back for good. They represented his feverish dream of...
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Céline Sciamma, Water Lilies, and the Complications of Youthful Desire

Nick Davie
May 11, 2020
Analysis, Close-Up, Features
Céline Sciamma is having a moment. Following the 2019 festival debut and this year's cinematic release ofPortrait of a Lady on Fire, she is currently the subject of Mubi UK's 'Focus on' retrospective. This...
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What Should We Make of The Farewell’s Ending?

Calum Baker
October 3, 2019
Analysis, Close-Up, Features, One Off
The Farewell, written and directed by Lulu Wang, is fast being slotted into one of film culture’s more interesting reductive categories: the heartfelt indie that makes everyone cry. The very premise primes...
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Getting Too Old For This Shit? – The Rise of the Geri-Action Star

Phil W. Bayles
September 18, 2019
Analysis, Close-Up, Features
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Poor Roger Murtagh wouldn't last long in Hollywood today. Played by Danny Glover in the Lethal Weapon movies, the cop was complaining about getting on in years at the tender age of 50 - which makes him a...
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Feminism vs Capitalism in Support the Girls

Tom Bond
June 27, 2019
Analysis, Close-Up, Features
Andrew Bujalski’s Support the Girls is undoubtedly a feminist film, despite being set in a Hooters-esque sports bar where the staff flirt for tips in low-cut tops. Its greatness lies in how it pits its cast...
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John Wick vs. The World: The Action Film’s Evolution

Chris Edwards
May 17, 2019
Analysis, Close-Up, Features
Action movies aren't what they used to be. With the incredible advancement of CGI allowing for ever-increasing financial success, modern action has become all about sequels, remakes and adaptations. This...
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