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Throughout the career of pop legend David Bowie - especially as he burst onto the scene as alter ego Ziggy Stardust - the question of personal and artistic identity was at the fore of his publicity. Brett...

This film was previously reviewed in November 2020 as part of our Raindance 2020 coverage. Feathers were unquestionably ruffled when it was announced last year by Duncan Jones that the upcoming biopic of...

This week sees the UK release of On the Basis of Sex, a biopic covering the education and early court cases of esteemed US Supreme Court Justice and living legend Ruth Bader Ginsberg. It joins a long line of...

The title of The Greatest Showman, out this week, refers to the 19th-century circus entrepreneur P.T. Barnum, though it could just as well refer to the movie’s star. Hugh Jackman has proved again and again...

Nick Broomfield’s documentary Whitney: Can I Be Me – an examination of one of the 20th century’s greatest singers – hits UK cinemas this week. Considering Houston’s astounding career across various...

For many it must have been simply implausible that Nicolas Roeg's fourth feature could work at all. David Bowie's star power aside - the rock icon was operating at the peak of his powers by the mid-1970s -...

Today marks 30 years since Jim Henson’s initially slighted, but since lauded, masterpiece Labyrinth was released in cinemas in America. At the risk of sounding slightly hyperbolic, this was a moment in...

The final track on the first side of David Bowie's 1973 album Aladdin Sane (A Lad Insane, get it?) is a lesser known rocker called 'Cracked Actor'; among hits such as 'Drive-In Saturday' and 'The Jean...

In Zoolander, Ben Stiller’s 2001 send-up of the fashion industry, the shadowy controlling figures of the trade task leading designer Mugatu (Will Ferrell) with finding a suitable candidate to assassinate the...

The last instalment of Welcome to the ‘80s discussed Will Gluck’s Easy A, and the way it emulates and alludes to many of the classic ‘80s films considered in this series. This time around we take a look...

"Let's not talk about the good old times, but the bad new ones." - Bertolt Brecht In recent years the cinema has frequently been talked about as a lost cause. Regardless of the fact that home viewing was...

Long before the superhero movie took the words "gritty reboot" and revolutionised a genre, period drama was working quietly away in the background doing exactly the same thing. As the '90s gave way to a...

When it comes to stylised quirkiness and off-the-wall humour, there is one film maker who stands out against all others, and that is the inimitable writer and director Wes Anderson. Having carved himself a...