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Slow and Steady Wins the Race — The Fearsome Logic of ‘It Follows’

The real terror of David Robert Mitchell’s film, out ten years ago this week, has nothing to do with sex.

Mar 24

Slow and Steady Wins the Race — The Fearsome Logic of ‘It Follows’

Mar 24

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Frame Rated

A Touch of Love — misogyny, motherhood, and the middle-class in un-swinging London

In 1960s Britain, a young woman is determined to defy society by becoming a single mother.

Mar 17

A Touch of Love — misogyny, motherhood, and the middle-class in un-swinging London

Mar 17

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Frame Rated

The Stepford Wives (1975) — a deceptively tranquil nightmare of oppression and lost identity

A woman new to an apparently idyllic Connecticut town starts to suspect there’s something very wrong with the other women there.

Feb 22

The Stepford Wives (1975) — a deceptively tranquil nightmare of oppression and lost identity

Feb 22

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Frame Rated

The Order (2024) — a 1980s journey into the heart of right-wing darkness

In the northwest US of the 1980s, an FBI agent investigates a group of violent right-wing extremists.

Feb 18

The Order (2024) — a 1980s journey into the heart of right-wing darkness

Feb 18

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Frame Rated

September 5 — superbly acted and directed, the best film yet on the 1972 Munich massacre

An American TV crew at the 1972 Munich Olympics finds itself covering a terrorist hostage crisis.

Feb 11

September 5 — superbly acted and directed, the best film yet on the 1972 Munich massacre

Feb 11

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Frame Rated

Patton — not a war film, but a masterful portrait of a man who loved war

Controversial US General George S. Patton achieves many victories during World War II, but also some painful defeats in his own career.

Feb 9

Patton — not a war film, but a masterful portrait of a man who loved war

Feb 9

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Frame Rated

The Gift (2000) — a convincing Cate Blanchett and scary Keanu Reeves in Raimi’s Southern Gothic

A psychic woman in a small Georgia town becomes involved in a murder case.

Feb 2

The Gift (2000) — a convincing Cate Blanchett and scary Keanu Reeves in Raimi’s Southern Gothic

Feb 2

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Frame Rated

Hard Candy — Elliot Page excels in an unsettling drama of teen and predator

A thirtysomething man and a teenage girl get chatting online… but who’s targeting who?

Jan 21

Hard Candy — Elliot Page excels in an unsettling drama of teen and predator

Jan 21

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Frame Rated

Incubus — Esperanto gimmick does more harm than good to an early William Shatner horror film

On a strange island, a pure man battles a female demon’s attempts to seduce him.

Jan 11

Incubus — Esperanto gimmick does more harm than good to an early William Shatner horror film

Jan 11

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Frame Rated

Panic in Year Zero! — post-apocalyptic misery from before it was fashionable

In 1960s California, a family fights for survival after a nuclear attack.

Jan 8

Panic in Year Zero! — post-apocalyptic misery from before it was fashionable

Jan 8

Barnaby Page

Barnaby Page

Barnaby is a journalist based in Suffolk, UK. By day he covers science and public policy; by night, film and classical music. He has also been a cinema manager.

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