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Interviews

Rachel Weisz and Alice Birch: ‘Siblings can be close, but this is a whole other level of codependency’

by Rafa Sales Ross

Actress and producer Rachel Weisz and writer Alice Birch lift the lid on their reimagining of David Cronenberg’s chilling twin thriller.
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Review

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

by Hannah Strong

An ensemble of radical climate activists attempt to sabotage an oil pipeline in Daniel Goldhaber’s environmentalist action-thriller.

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Interviews

How to Blow Up a Pipeline: ‘You just try to live in a way that minimises your reprehensibility’

by Charles Bramesco

The team behind the explosive eco-thriller How to Blow Up A Pipeline reflect on the nature of activism, living under capitalism and spurring audiences out of inertia.
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Review

Missing

by Alison Rumfitt

Storm Reid anchors an enjoyable, twisty thriller that leaves an unfortunate sour taste in the mouth.

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“I modelled the movie off of Broadcast News” – Jason Segel on Forgetting Sarah Marshall at 15

by Simon Bland

Writer and star Jason Segel spills on the naked real-life inspirations and upcoming small-screen future of his heartbreak-based modern comedy classic.
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Review

Sick Of Myself

by David Jenkins

A competitive pair of self-obsessed narcissists will do just about anything for attention in Kristoffer Borgli’s satirical feature debut.

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Festivals

The Director’s Fortnight and Critic’s Week sidebars bolster a packed Cannes

by Charles Bramesco

Films from Michel Gondry, Manoel de Oliveira, and a slew of newcomers will play alongside the Official Selection announced last week.
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In Praise Of

The thunder and the fury of The Place Beyond the Pines

by Gayle Sequeira

A decade since its release, Derek Cianfrance’s thriller about the intersecting lives of two young men in small-town America still stings.
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Review

A Thousand And One

by Cheyenne Bart-Stewart

A woman recently released from prison raises her young son against the backdrop of a rapidly-changing New York City in AV Rockwell’s Sundance prizewinning feature.

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Home Ents

A troubled filmmaker goes through hell in Iván Zulueta’s Arrebato

by Anton Bitel

This 1979 Spanish arthouse film, being rereleased by Radiance, is a fascinating, tricky cult horror.