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Festival Cinephilia Interview: Calum Cooper Movie Reviews

So this guy does exactly what it says on the tin. I spoke to Calum Cooper about his fascination with movies, and of course, his…

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New Trailer for Playmobil: The Movie

Move over lego movies… Take a first look at the latest trailer for Playmobil: The Movie ahead of its release on 9th August. Buckle up…

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Psychology Of Film Diagnosis: Three Colors Blue

Blue, the first in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors trilogy, tells the story of a ghost musician, Julie, who is caught in a grieving cycle after…

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Survival of the Finest: Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk

Shortly before I embarked on my first screening of Christopher Nolanʼs latest motion picture Dunkirk back in July of 2017, I filled my face with a…

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Genre Blast: Period Films – It’s All in the Detail

To qualify, the creation must be of another time and place, always in the past (otherwise we’re heading into invalidated sci-fi territory), and do what films are supposed to do; that is, pluck us from our known reality and drop us into a detailed foreign era to experience life as it once was lived.

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Indie Feature 'She Rises' Echoes Lynchian Nightmares

She Rises, which had its world premier at the Ireland Horrorthon Film Festival, is a mystery-comedy-horror hybrid of sorts, pulling some impressive, if ridiculously oddball,…

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Woo L.A. Podcast # 7 – Dunkirk: From The Beach To The Oscars

In this edition of the Woo L.A. Podcast, Al Robinson and Robin Write are joined once again by Daniel Smith-Rowsey, and first-timer in these parts…

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Listmania: 5 Favorite Tim Burton Movies

#DirectorsWeekend – #TimBurton – Friday August 4th – Sunday August 6th Tim Burton is one of those directors to me where when I think of his…

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Film Honors: 1985

My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…

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Baby Driver Review & Edgar Wright Interview

Baby is not slow. He might seem slow, but he moves at speed to the beat of his own drum. Edgar Wright’s passion project is…

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Genre Blast: The Complications of Friendship – the Buddy Film

Let’s start this installment with a question: who is more forgiving than a spouse, knows you more intimately than a sibling, is more protective than…

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Two Days, One Night At The Cannes Film Festival

So thanks to my adorable wife I’ll be In #Cannes Saturday and Sunday for the sheer hell of it – let’s meet up / take…

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Genre Blast: Man, Nature & Wonder in the Wild

Most of us take our survival – even our mere presence on the planet we share – for granted, rarely considering it. We have programmed…

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Genre Blast: Genre of the Philosophical; aka: Mindf**k Cinema

I’m not prefacing this batch with “not my preferred genre”, that’s for certain. It is my “go-to” genre when I have an appetite for pure,…

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