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Still from Cliffhanger: a climber in fingerless gloves reaches up across grey rock streaked with snow

BikesJun 9, 2022

Films and Things: XTREME Sports

Break-neck cinema at its finest...

A still from Apocalypse Now: a face streaked with camouflage paint emerging from dark, misty water at night

FilmApr 14, 2022

Films and Things: 'Nam

Some prime slices of 'Nam kino...

Still from Goodbye Dragon Inn: someone with an umbrella stands in the rain outside a cinema with a hand-painted billboard

cinemasMar 3, 2022

Films and Things: Picture Houses

An ode to the humble picture palace...

Herbert West from the Re-Animator films, in a lab coat and glasses, holding a syringe of green fluid over a severed head

beams plusJan 14, 2022

Films and Things: Uniforms

Singing the praises of an unfairly-maligned style of rig-out...

The Shining end photo, captioned Overlook Hotel July 4th Ball 1921: a black and white ballroom crowd in evening dress

FilmOct 27, 2021

Deck~Out~and~About: "Heeeeerrre's Clobber!"

Come and play with us...

John Belushi in Animal House, in a dark sweatshirt printed College over a check shirt, arms out by a battered yellow car

FilmAug 26, 2021

Films and Things: Sweatwear

Gettin' sweaty on the silver screen...

Still from Rear Window: Jeff in a wheelchair with one leg in plaster, and someone in a grey suit at the window

FilmNov 6, 2020

Films and Things: Locked Down

Lockdown through the lens of cinema...

Still from A Serious Man: someone in tortoiseshell glasses and a brown check shirt below a TV aerial against a blue sky

FilmSep 20, 2019

Films and Things: Black Comedy

A collection of blackly-comic gems...

FilmAug 23, 2019

Worth a Watch: Samuel Fuller, the Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera

A mint documentary about a B-Movie maestro...

FilmMar 27, 2019

Films and Things: Japan

A few pivotal slices of Japanese cinema

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Basketball Diaries, sat against a chain-link fence in a white vest, jeans and black Converse

ConverseFeb 22, 2018

Films and Things: Converse

Converse on the silver screen...

Jason Wood sat alone in a row of empty cinema seats in glasses, a gilet, rolled jeans and dark lace-ups, in black and white

filmNov 30, 2017

Interview: Jason Wood - cinema mastermind

A chat about films, independence and other related subjects

Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in All the President's Men, talking over cups and food boxes at a McDonald's table

FilmSep 28, 2017

Films and Things: McDonald's

An examination of McDonald's at the multiplex...

FilmSep 27, 2017

Worth a Watch: Making of Rushmore

Behind-the-scenes Wes Anderson action...

Black and white still from La Haine: Hubert Koundé in a beanie and sheepskin jacket beside two others, one aiming a revolver

CarharttAug 30, 2017

FILMS AND THINGS: CARHARTT

An odyssey through workwear related cinema...

Richie in The Royal Tenenbaums, 2001, sitting on a grass court in a headband and tennis shirt, a crowd in the stands behind

FilmJul 13, 2017

Films and Things: Tennis

Tennis style in films...

Polish poster reading Hitchcocka and Zawrót Głowy, a skull topped with a green, blue and red target above a dark suit

filmJun 20, 2017

Through The Magpie Eye: Polish Film Posters

Some bonkers Polish film posters we're into...

FilmJan 7, 2016

Interview: David Patrick Kelly

We chew the cud with the madcap master of stage and screen

filmJan 6, 2016

Worth a watch: The Girl Chewing Gum

A great film from 1976

Board of CanadaDec 8, 2015

Worth a Watch: Neighbours by Norman McLaren

Madness with meaning from 1952

filmAug 19, 2015

Through the Magpie Eye: Old Cinemas of Manchester

Good photos of old cinemas

FilmMar 5, 2015

Worth a Watch: A Short Vision

The feel-good romp of the summer?

FilmMar 2, 2015

Interview: Daniel Wolfe on ‘Catch Me Daddy'

Director Daniel Wolfe talks about his powerful new film

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