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Asif Kapadia’s Diego Maradona – Reviewed

25/06/2019

Following up success with Senna (2010) and Amy (2015), for his latest film director Asif Kapadia turns his attention to the destructive genius of Diego Armando Maradona. Mike Pinnington reviews… In grainy footage,...

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“There are many ways to be a woman”: Out of Blue – Reviewed

29/03/2019

Subverting the conventions of film noir, Carol Morley’s latest Out of Blue opens in cinemas today. But, asks Mike Pinnington, does its heavily worn ambition result in a good story well told? For...

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“Art Kills in this Movie”: Velvet Buzzsaw – Reviewed

08/02/2019

Dan Gilroy’s latest film Velvet Buzzsaw, which arrived on Netflix this week, finds room for high art and high camp amid some grizzly and inventive deaths, finds Mike Pinnington… Art world satire posing...

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“A Truly Remarkable Film”
Female Human Animal

13/12/2018

Inspired by surrealist Leonora Carrington, and shot partly during the install for the Tate exhibition in her name, Mike Pinnington delves into the uncanny world of Female Human Animal…  Both inspired and haunted...

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“Something-as-yet unseen festers at sea…” In Profile: The Fog (1980)

23/10/2018

Never have John Carpenter’s revenant killers loomed quite so handsomely out of the fog as in this new 4K restoration from STUDIOCANAL, finds fanboy Mike Pinnington… “That celebration tonight is a travesty –...

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The Big Interview: Agnès Varda // Liverpool Biennial 2018

19/07/2018

As her new installation is revealed at FACT for Liverpool Biennial, we speak to pioneer of the French New Wave: award-winning filmmaker, photographer and artist, Agnès Varda… On using triptychs in her work:...

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“It asserts that cinema retains the power to surprise…” In Profile: Irma Vep (1996)

03/01/2018

With his latest psychological thriller, Personal Shopper (2016), debuting on Netflix UK recently, Mike Pinnington takes an opportunity to look back at French director Olivier Assayas’ 1996 breakout success: his ‘very meta’ Irma Vep…...

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Me, Replicant? The Cultural Impact Of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982)

17/10/2017

How can Denis Villeneuve’s new Blade Runner 2049 live up to Ridley Scott’s original? A film that took Philip K Dick’s famous source novel, and went on to spawn its own mythology, as...

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The Ultimate Test: Blade Runner & Voight-Kampff Cinema

09/10/2017

What would happen if Blade Runner’s Voight-Kampff test – a polygraph-like machine used to determine its subject’s humanity – was applied to the cinematic form itself? Nik Glover dons his best Deckard trench...

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