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Better Call Saul
Niall Anderson thinks Saul Goodman is just about worth your money. All of the main characters in Breaking Bad – and most of the minor ones – exist somewhere along a spectrum between greed and...
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Listen Up Philip
Niall Anderson is unimpressed with the latest from indie whizzkid Alex Ross Perry. Listen Up Philip is a very broad comedy shot in the mannered, handheld style of current indie-mope drama. Or it’s a...
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David Cronenberg, Hippie
Niall Anderson looks at the early work of cinema’s favourite bodyhorror auteur Two men sit fully clothed in a bath. One of them describes himself as a secret agent; the other says he’s a chemical...
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Swing While You’re Whingeing
In anticipation of Frank Sinatra’s centenary, Niall Anderson watches Alex Gibney’s four-hour documentary on the singer’s life and work Like Humphrey Bogart, his sometime drinking partner, Frank...
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Dud Meridian
Niall Anderson struggles bravely with Tarantino’s sadistic Western epic The Hateful Eight There was a lot of irony about in the 1990s. Liking things that were a bit rubbish became known as ‘ironic...
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Exit, Molested by a Bear
Niall Anderson girds his loins, then girds them again, for his second snowy revisionist western in as many days, The Revenant. If there’s a joke anywhere in The Revenant, I missed it. If a character...
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On the inside, looking out
Niall Anderson watches Lenny Abrahamson’s hotly tipped captivity drama Room Published eighteen months after the discovery of Josef Fritzl’s basement in Amstetten, Austria, Emma Donoghue’s captivity...
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Man Bites God
Niall Anderson discovers God alive, unwell and living in Brussels in Jaco Van Dormael’s new comedy Belgium is a country I don’t think about very often, except when I’m in it, and even then it can be a...
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Auto da Fé: The Long Life of Taxi Driver
Mostly Film revisits a masterpiece, as hangovers from Scorsese Day rage across the globe When we talk about iconic character shots in film, we’re generally talking about shots where something clever...
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Betting On Red Revisited
We revisit Niall Anderson‘s look at the loudness war in cinema Noise annoys: Jean Dujardin has a terrible dream A famous technical innovator, Stanley Kubrick was defiantly behind the curve in one...
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