28.7.14

In the Mood for Love

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As the previous post attests, I'm a firm believer in the importance of titles, and this one felt like a stinker while I was watching. Wo...
25.7.14

Boyhood

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For me, the most interesting thing about the film isn't the way it was made or the universal acclaim it has received. Rather, it's...
4.7.14

Dream Country

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The latest edition of the London Graphic Novel Network's coverage of The Sandman is now up , and it may well be the best yet. Lots of p...
22.6.14

Avengers vs X-Men

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Quite a lot of the fashionable thinking around equality since the financial crisis has tried to shift the debate from the old opportunity / ...

Spring Breakers

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Remember when P.T. Anderson wanted to make an Adam Sandler movie into an art film? Harmony Korine seems to have similar ambitions for the t...
15.6.14

The Book of Human Insects

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The heroine of this short noir tale from manga godfather Osamu Tezuka is "far from a feminist role model" according to the blurb, ...
14.6.14

The End of Summer

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More reflections on Ozu's very particular style after watching the follow-up to Late Autumn . The End of Summer has its fair share of b...
11.6.14

The Doll's House

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The London Graphic Novel Network is going from strength to strength, the discussion on the second Sandman book is now up here . As before, ...
8.6.14

Tangents

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A 1995 comic album by Miguelanxo Prado, comprising of 4-5 page shorts exploring bourgeois sexual encounters that are inevitably unfulfilling...