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Western interest in films such as Takashi Miike’s latest release,
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Ever since hip-hop and rap culture entered the mainstream in the early 1990s, there has been a succession of rappers that have traded rhyming lines for learning lines; converting their musical fame...
Founded in 1976, The Toronto International Film Festival has grown to become one of the most influential and successful film festivals in the world; a...
Apocalypse Postponed: Nuclear War Movies
It seems like filmmakers are forever trying to kill off humanity in a variety of terrifying ways. By far the most popular method and, unfortunately, the most unnervingly plausible, is by means of a...
Petit Larceny: The 10 Best French Crime Movies
French filmmakers have always been obsessed with criminals and gangsters but French crime movies are very different to their counterparts from the US or the UK. Not content with staging stand-offs and...
The 2010 nominees for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay were a generic and stylistic mixed bag and atypically diverse by the Academy’s standards. This year’s batch includes a historical...
Paranoid Visions: Films About Conspiracy Theories
We like to believe that there is more going on around us than meets the eye: secrets and conspiracies that shape the world, and movie audiences are no different. Whether it’s a clandestine world government,...
The Top 10 Extreme Documentaries
Documentarians go to extraordinary lengths in the search for truth; whether it’s at the top of a mountain, in the depths of the ocean, on a city street or a raging battlefield, factual filmmakers...
Space Invaders: Alien Invasion Movies
From deadly microbes to technologically advanced spaceships, beings from other worlds have tried to conquer Earth on the big screen for decades. The notion that hostile aliens will land among us has...
The Top Ten (or is it Twenty…) Evil Twins in Movies
Long a staple of melodramas, horrors and comedies, playing the dual role of evil twins gives an actor the opportunity to explore both sides of their character, the good and the bad.
