Super Bad: The Dubious Tendencies of Judd Apatow
Guest contributor Tristan Marajh questions whether Judd Apatow can be regarded as among the smartest or most compassionate people in Hollywood.
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Private Theatre: Video Diary of a Lost Girl
Film critic Chuck Williamson writes on Lindsay Denniberg’s ‘Video Diary of a Lost Girl’, a film “invested in reconfiguring rape culture paradigms”.
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Reinventing the Reel: Foxcatcher
Film critic Michael Dodd writes on Bennett Miller’s ‘Foxcatcher’, the most unexpected omission from the Academy’s Best Picture nominations.
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Reinventing the Reel: Birdman
Michael Dodd writes on Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘Birdman’, “a wry look at modern celebrity and the struggle to keep up with an ever-changing digital and fame-obsessed world”.
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Reinventing the Reel: Inherent Vice
Film critic Ben Hynes on Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, a hazy adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Inherent Vice’.
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Private Theatre: Gone Girl
Contributing editor Christine Jin writes on David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’, last year’s most hotly debated film.
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Reinventing the Reel: Grace of Monaco
Film critic Chuck Williamson gathers his thoughts on ‘Grace of Monaco’, Olivier Dahan’s much-maligned Cannes 2014 opener.
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Reinventing the Reel: Dukhtar
Ali Zubair writes on ‘Dukhtar’, “the latest in a new wave of Pakistani films driven primarily by the vision of filmmakers and their desire to tell stories beyond the usual commercial motivations”.
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Halloween: The TMS Alternative Horror Selection
The Missing Slate’s film team offer up their selection of alternative horror picks for Halloween.
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‘Nam in Hollywood (Part Two: War is Hell)
In the second part of a series on the Vietnam war in Hollywood, Michael Dodd explores how American cinema addressed ‘Nam itself and influenced the nation’s perspective on the war.
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