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Review

On Falling review – Solidly-made slice of Loachian miserablism

by David Jenkins

The dire lot of a low-paid factory worker is the subject of this rigorous if hardly revelatory character study from debut director Laura Carreira.

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In Retrospect
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This Just In

Severed, Reprinted, Impersonated: The Rise of Cinema’s ‘Work Double’

by Gayle Sequeira

A spate of recent works are pondering the concept of replicating or separating oneself in response to our increasingly economically perilous world.
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Podcast

Mickey 17 | On Falling | The Rover (2014)

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss the return of Bong Joon Ho with Mickey 17. We also review On Falling and, for Film Club watched brutal Australian neo-western The Rover
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Review

Marching Powder review – a proper, proper gaffe

by Adam Woodward

Nick Love and Danny Dyer are back with yet another boorish, small-minded take on the football hooligan genre.

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Not Movies

What on Earth is The Show About the Show?

by Daniel Glassman

Caveh Zahedi counts Greta Gerwig and the Safdie Brothers among his admirers – but where do you begin with a beast as strange and sprawling as his all-consuming magnum opus?
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Club LWLies Exclusive

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.