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Still from Cliffhanger: a climber in fingerless gloves reaches up across grey rock streaked with snow
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Films and Things: XTREME Sports

Break-neck cinema at its finest...

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

Films and Things: 'Nam

Some prime slices of 'Nam kino...

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

An ode to the humble picture palace...

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

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

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

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

Come and play with us...

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

Films and Things: Sweatwear

Gettin' sweaty on the silver screen...

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Still from The Firm: someone with wet, floppy hair and a moustache laughs in a doorway by a sign reading Fine Wines and Ales
Films

Films and Things: Blighty

A trip through the annals of English cinema...

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Films and Things: Summer Shirting
Films

Films and Things: Summer Shirting

A veritable party platter of slick summer shirtage...

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Films

Worth a Watch: Cat Soup

Animated insanity from the Land of the Rising Sun...

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

Films and Things: Locked Down

Lockdown through the lens of cinema...

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Films

Worth a Watch: Your Face

A breathtakingly bonkers film from the don dada of independent animation...

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Still from Devil's Advocate: someone shouting in a dark brocade jacket and open white shirt against a blaze of white light
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Down With The Devil

The Devil in the guise of humans, the Devil personified in a tie and slacks, the Devil portrayed in film.

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Still from The Hurt Locker: someone in a bomb disposal suit walking along a railway line through a dusty, damaged street
Films

Films and Things: The Women of Kino

An in-depth look at some mint female filmmakers...

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Still from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: two people in a bed on a snowy beach under a tartan blanket
Films

Films and Things: Blue Romance

The perfect antidote to Valentines Day mither...

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Film still of two people in suits talking in an ornate hall with chandeliers, one in glasses and a brown suit
Films

Films and Things: Best Films of 2019

Our resident film critic's top five films of 2019...

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

Films and Things: Black Comedy

A collection of blackly-comic gems...

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Still from My Own Private Idaho: someone in a cord jacket and beanie walks an empty road, a coat over one shoulder
Films

FILMS AND THINGS: THE OPEN ROAD

Five classic road movies that are worth a watch

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Films and Things: Japan
Film

Films and Things: Japan

A few pivotal slices of Japanese cinema

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Behind the scenes on a Kubrick film, someone bearded in glasses by a film camera behind a laughing cast member
Films

Through the Magpie Eye: An Ode to Kubrick

A look at the life and times of captain Kubrick...

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Gary Cole in Office Space, in glasses, blue shirt, red braces and a gold patterned tie, holding a mug in an open-plan office
Films

Films and Things: Back to Work

Some cinematic inspiration to get over the post-Christmas slump...

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Keiji Sada in Good Morning, in a grey crew-neck jumper with arms folded on a table, in a room with paper screens
Films

Films and Things: Knitwear

Knitted garb on the silver screen...

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Illustration for Gomorrah of two shirtless figures in briefs with rifles on a beach, under a pale blue sky
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Un Grande Viaggio Cinematografico Italiano (A Grand Italian Cinematic Voyage)

A jaunt into Italian film history...

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Roy Scheider in Jaws, sat in glasses and a navy shirt on a crowded beach, hand to chin, a lifeguard tower behind
Films

Films and Things: At the Beach

A virtual filmic jaunt to the beach...

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The Cannonball Run poster billing Burt Reynolds, a painted cast round a Maximum Speed 55 sign and a red sports car
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Through the Magpie Eye: A Brief Tribute to Burt Reynolds

R.I.P. Burt

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Leonardo DiCaprio in a white Ralph Lauren polo shirt and sunglasses on a boat in The Wolf of Wall Street
Films

Films and Things: Polo Shirts

Some of the finest polo shirts to ever grace the cinematic realm...

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Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces, in a rust bomber jacket and roll-neck, crouched beside a wheelchair user in a field
Films

Films and Things: Dysfunctional Families

Naff families, mint films...

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Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, in a yellow Colt 45 tee in a shop aisle
Films

Films and Things: T-Shirts

Great films, better tees...

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Panoramic photo by Jeff Bridges at a bowling alley bar, someone in a cowboy hat beside a bearded person in a bowling shirt
Films

Through the Magpie Eye: Jeff Bridges' Photo Collection

A look through The Dude's photography collection...

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Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, in an olive field jacket in front of a yellow cab and graffiti
Films

Films and Things: New York City

N.Y.C'S finest...

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

Converse on the silver screen...

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Poster for The Friends of Eddie Coyle with Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle, a group holding guns on red above a yellow title
Films

Through the Magpie Eye: Old Film Posters

A bunch of old film posters for your perusal...

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Ice Cube in a navy cap and jacket leaning on the bonnet of a gold Chevy Impala under telephone wires, from Boyz in the Hood
Cars

Film and Things: Overlooked Cars

Cinema's greatest overlooked motors...

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Billy Bob Thornton in a Santa suit leaning on a bar with a cigarette in hand, in a still from Bad Santa
Christmas

Films and Things: Christmas

An examination of festive cinema...

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Harrison Ford as Han Solo in a dark parka with a fur-trimmed hood at a snowy base, in a still from The Empire Strikes Back
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Films and Things: Big Coats

A big coat-based cinematic expedition...

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

Films and Things: McDonald's

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

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Harry Dean Stanton as Brett in Alien, in a Hawaiian shirt, olive quilted jacket and patched cap in a spaceship corridor
Films

R.I.P. Harry Dean Stanton

Five mint films featuring the late, great Harry Dean Stanton

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