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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Editors’ Films of 2014
The best films of 2014, as selected by our editorial team.
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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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VIFF ’14 Vol. 1: Amirpour, Perry, Godard and the Dardennes
Ben Hynes begins his coverage of the 2014 Vancouver International Film Festival with capsules on ‘Two Days, One Night’, ‘Goodbye to Language’, ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ and ‘Listen Up Philip’.
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Private Theatre: Black Narcissus
Film critic Ben Hynes delves into Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1947 classic ‘Black Narcissus’.
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Private Theatre: Bigger Than Life
Film critic Ben Hynes claims Nicholas Ray’s ‘Bigger Than Life’ is “less a celebration of the ability of the individual to overcome addiction than a witheringly subtle jab at the fantasy of normality”.
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Private Theatre: The LEGO Movie
Film critic Ben Hynes on how ‘The Lego Movie’ functions as a “devious piece of propaganda for neoliberal capitalism.”
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Private Theatre: Under the Skin
In anticipation of its upcoming DVD release, film critic Ben Hynes delves deeper into the allegorical implications of Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Under the Skin’
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