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How the Scream franchise’s mask slipped

When Scream was relaunched/remade/rebooted/requel-ed/whatever in 2022, under the direction of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, something was missing. It treated the first four films as sacred

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Diving into the SXSW film line-up

In a landscape where film festivals have had to jostle violently for the attention of sales agents and studios, it helps if you’ve cultivated a specific vibe

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Daniel Blumberg: ​‘The ingredients were there to…

Daniel Blumberg is an omnivorous artist, bringing intense conviction and curiosity to song form, improvised live performance, visual artwork and film composition. As a composer for

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The Moment review – it’s not that easy being green

On June 7 2024 Charli XCX unleashed a monster. Green, mean and only 41:23 minutes long, ​‘brat’ wasn’t just an album – it was an entire summer. And

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Splitsville review – lacking on romance and comedy

The course of true love never did run smooth, and for the kind but clueless Carey (Kyle Marvin) he’s in for a rude awakening. His wife

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The Secret Agent review – Mendonça Filho’s most…

When Marcelo (Wagner Moura) first arrives in Dona Sebastiana’s building, he is greeted by a curious cat whose head is split into two fully formed faces,

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Joachim Trier and the science of self-doubt

Walt Whitman famously professed in his poem ​‘Song to Myself’ to ​“contain multitudes”, and in doing so encapsulated the mysteries of the human condition and

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It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley review – a touching…

In the 29 years since his accidental death from drowning, the life of Jeff Buckley has been simplified into rock ​‘n’ roll myth: a tragic, sensitive artist

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Death with Dignity: the documentaries…

“Now that sex is available to us in hardcore porno films, death remains the one last taboo in cinema,” wrote the film critic Amos Vogel in

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How gaming YouTuber Markiplier became an…

Markiplier is far from the only YouTuber to see success lately in theatrical cinema – Talk to Me filmmakers the Philippou Brothers and Skinamarink visionary Kyle Edward Ball spring