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Life is a B-Movie: Joe D’Amato’s Bizarre Prophecy of 2025

by Mila Fielker

A dystopian retro-future of telepathic mutants, gladiators and fascists – does Joe D’Amato’s vision of 2025 show any resemblance to our current reality?
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Video

Watch: Bong Joon Ho on Mickey 17, Robert Pattinson’s ‘joke’ accent and his favourite creatures

by Hannah Strong

We catch up with one of our all-time favourite filmmakers about his sci-fi caper and creating croissant-like creatures.
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In Praise Of

The radical DIY miracle of Marble Ass

by Fedor Tot

Born out of Belgrade’s underground scene in 1995, Želimir Žilnik’s celebration of a tight-knit community of sex workers has a particular power in today’s increasingly divided society.
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Acting Up

Off the Deep End: Fred Halsted’s Slippery Sadism

by Alexander Mooney

Half a century on, the man behind Sextool and LA Plays Itself remains a pioneering, provocative figure of films that straddle the line between pornography and art.
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Lost in Translation: The unsung art of subtitling

by Madeleine Storer

The ​“one-inch barrier” that Bong Joon Ho spoke of in 2019 still exists – and it’s not always audiences who are to blame for subtitles being inaccessible.
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Podcast

Film Preview Special

Now that Awards Season is finally drawing to a close its time to look forward at what the rest of the year has to offer. We’ll be discussing all the most exciting titles due to hit our screens in 2025.
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Review

The Last Showgirl review – dreamy and low-key to a fault

by Mark Asch

Pamela Anderson excels as an over-the-hill Vegas showgirl seeing out her notice period in this low-key, vibey backstage drama from Gia Coppola.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Festivals

Tornado – first-look review

by David Jenkins

John ​“Slow West” Maclean returns with a Samurai-inspired heist thriller set in the English wilds – the eccentric results are mixed.
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Not Movies

Heightened Drama: Inside the operatic adaptation of Festen

by Blake Simons

Thomas Vinterberg’s 1998 drama finds its way to the Royal Opera House courtesy of an elaborate new reimagining – but how on earth do you adapt a Dogme 95 film into an opera?
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Not Movies

How Mouthwashing continues Alien’s condemnation of worker exploitation

by Alex Masse

Taking cues from Ridley Scott’s juggernaut, Mouthwashing is a fascinating game about worker exploitation and the violence of the patriarchy.