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Remembering Jules Bass, stop-motion pioneer and creator of Christmas wonder

by Charles Bramesco

Deceased at 87, he and partner Arthur Rankin reigned as kings over midcentury Yuletide nostalgia.
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Festivals

Struggling fathers take the spotlight at this year’s BFI London Film Festival

by Zahra AlHadad

A trio of dramas explain the relationship between fathers and children put an emphasis on parental personhood at this year’s London Film Festival.
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Interviews

Chris Butler on ParaNorman: ‘We wanted it to feel like a rollercoaster’

by Callie Petch

The co-director of the weird and wonderful stop motion modern classic ParaNorman reflects on the film’s legacy a decade later.
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House on Bare Mountain – the softcore flick that reunited the Universal monsters

by Sean McGeady

60 years since its release, this strange quasi-monster flick is a reminder of cinema before the IP wars began in earnest.
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Sensitive Scumbags: The male characters in the films of Ruben Östlund

by David Jenkins

Ahead of the release of Triangle of Sadness, we look back at the Swedish provocateur’s intriguing depiction of men.
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In Praise Of

Why I love Kathy Burke’s performance in Nil by Mouth

by Adam Scovell

Her turn as a woman living under the thumb of an abusive husband is a masterclass in empathy and heartbreak.
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Interviews

Ruben Östlund: ‘I was interested in beauty as a currency’

by Ella Kemp

The two-time Palme d’Or-winning provocateur chats idealism, misogyny and modeling as Triangle of Sadness hits cinemas.
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Interviews

‘Our pact with the devil was to try and pull it off’ – Ghostwatch at 30

by Simon Bland

Creator Stephen Volk and director Lesley Manning reflect on the chaos and unlikely impact of their meta-Halloween horror.
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In Praise Of

Why I love Isabelle Huppert’s performance in Amateur

by Joe Flockhart

Huppert’s role in Hal Hartley’s 1995 black comedy curio remains one of her most interesting to date.
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Home Ents

Discover the haunting human horrors of this Pre-Code classic

by Anton Bitel

Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s The Most Dangerous Game still has the power to shock, 80 years after its release.