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Features

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Festivals

Final Cut – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Michel Hazanavicius comes up short in his underpowered remake of Shinichirou Ueda’s zom-com, One Cut of the Dead
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Festivals

Scarlet – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Pietro Marcello adapts Alexander Grin’s fairy tale about a poverty-stricken family with breathtaking results.
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Incoming

Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic bids to get down with the kids

by Lucy Vipond

The Australian director appears to be courting younger viewers with his hotly-anticipated film about The King.
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Home Ents

Discover the cult ’80s slasher that pre-empted Freddy Krueger

by Anton Bitel

The likes of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream owe something to Robert Deubel’s co-ed carve up Girls Nite Out.
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Festivals

Quiet defiance in JE Tiglao’s Metamorphosis

by Jason Tan Liwag

This landmark film receives its UK première at Queer East Film Festival, but its journey has been a tumultuous one.
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In Praise Of

Why I love the DIY filmmaking of Once

by Natalie Marlin

John Carney’s microbudget musical proves that talent and creativity can result in an extraordinary cinematic experience.
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Creative polymath and paper magician Lobulo on the art of making mistakes

In partnership with Adobe.
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Interviews

Gaspar Noé: ‘Vortex isn’t about the death of cinema, but its evolution’

by David Jenkins

The Argentinian enfant terrible on death, sex, his mature new film Vortex and why making TV shows isn’t worth his freedom.
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In Praise Of

Shin Ultraman is the culmination of a career indebted to a pop culture icon

by Alicia Haddick

As the cult Japanese hero receives a new live-action outing, we explore Ultraman’s influence on Hideaki Anno.
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In Praise Of

Movies, Now More than Ever: Robert Altman’s The Player at 30

by Joe Flockhart

As multiverses and IP dominate the box office, we look back to Altman’s biting satire on the unoriginality of Hollywood.