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Blue Jasmine starts the same way that any other Woody Allen film does. Yet that’s where most of the similarities end between his other works, and his greatest film in years. Blue Jasmine shares standard...

https://vimeo.com/jacobfrey/thepresent Based on a short comic strip by Fabio Coala called Perfection, Jacob Frey's animated short The Present plucks at the heartstrings in almost Pixar-esque fashion....

Issues of gender inequality are becoming ever more prevalent in the film industry. First there was the famous pay discrepancy highlighted by Jennifer Lawrence last year. And in recent weeks, two of our own...

For over a decade now it has been impossible for a mainstream film to be released without some form of visual effects (or VFX). Digital technologies have permanently changed the way films are made. This is...

https://vimeo.com/167111872 Talking Cure is a short film that uses animated sketches to illustrate improvised dialogue from comedy improv group Starla and Sons. In a four-minute mishmash of quick-fire...

Cast your mind back to the hazy days of the late noughties. Judd Apatow had been pretty much owning the blockbuster comedy genre with The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Superbad - the latter of which...

If you’ve been paying even a little attention to the media circus around Suicide Squad, you’ll have heard about what Jared Leto’s been up to. Dead pigs, used condoms, boxes of bullets: you name it,...

https://vimeo.com/125937761 Day 39 is a snapshot of modern-day warfare, focusing on one rookie US soldier on foot patrol with his platoon in a remote part of Afghanistan. It expertly captures the...

The first three films made by the Coen Brothers are all great. Excellent, in fact. But Barton Fink is the first that really showed their genius; that they are two of the preeminent filmmakers of our time....

In the wake of the Ghostbusters reboot there have been a spate of announcements of gender-swapped remakes. Rebel Wilson is set to star in a new version of the 1988 film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and a new...

For decades now there has been an increasing symbiosis between TV and film. In the past there was a strong temptation to go bigger, and adapt a show for the big screen to reach a wider audience, condensing...

To mark the 5th annual Argentine Film Festival which starts in London this Thursday, we trace the origins of the present, exciting state of Argentine cinema. In the early years of the new millennium, Latin...

In the upcoming Nine Lives (out on 17 August), Kevin Spacey plays a man turned into a cat. It's an odd career choice given the huge star-power injection Spacey has recently received thanks to Netflix’s House...

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/177559327 Everyday My Dad Dies tells a disorienting tale of love and loss. The trance-like short muddies direction; events seem linear, retrospective or even...

Todd Solondz's debut feature, Welcome to the Dollhouse, serves up almost the very definition of black comedy. 21 years since its TIFF premiere, and on the eve of its pseudo-sequel Wiener-Dog finding UK...