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Wanna See Something Really Scary?
Horror stories are more chilling if they come with the promise, "based on a true story."
When Barton Fink Met Bruce Springsteen
James Gandolfini, Christopher Walken, Kate Winslet, show tunes - what's not to like about Romance & Cigarettes?
Why I Love The Censor
A furore over a prosthetic penis makes Mark Kermode affectionate toward the British Board Of Film Classification.
Child's Play
Faced with a choice of crappy children's films, Gwyneth Paltrow or Big Momma's House 2, our critic chooses death. Lots of death.
Were We Wrong About Malick?
With Pocahontas melodrama The New World, Terence Malick, director of Badlands and The Thin Red Line, seems to have come unstuck. Was it always style over substance?
I'm Not Alan Partridge
One is a philanderer, the other denies having slept with Courtney Love: Steve Coogan plays his alter-ego 'Steve Coogan' in A Cock And Bull Story.
When Will America Grow Up?
The US ratings system works against mature films, such as Atom Egoyan's Where The Truth Lies.
Elizabeth The Worst
From Almost Famous to almost unwatchable, who'd have thought Cameron Crowe could fall so far?
It's A Wonderful Death
In praise of dark and grisly entertainment for the young 'uns.
Sweetback's Setback
How a son's confession ensured the censorship of his father's most famous film.
Guy Fawked Up
Watching Guy Ritchie's Revolver will make you want to pour petrol on your head and set fire to yourself. And not in a good way.
This Sporting Life
The hooliganism of Green Street isn't big or clever. Nor is the film itself.
Hollywood Eats B-Movies For Breakfast
With The Cave bearing a striking similarity to British underground horror The Descent, Mark Kermode rakes over the parasitic relationship between Hollywood and its low-budget cousins.
Island Of Lost Souls
After The Island flopped in the US, the critics took their revenge on director Michael Bay. It's just a shame that, for once, he's made a half-decent blockbuster.
Winterbottom Spanks Ben Dover
It's back to business as usual for the R-18 certificate after the Video Appeals Committee reached its conclusion over the distinction between porn and explicit arthouse.
9 Songs, 9 Sex Tapes
The appearance of art movies with explicit sex in them on DVD has led to an appeal from the distributors of hardcore material.
Keeping Us In The Dark
If distributors don't preview a film to the press it's going to be a turkey, right? Not necessarily, in this day and age of paranoia about piracy and an anxious reliance on 'Boffo Opening Box Office'.
Inside The Actor's Studio
Thesps should really stay out of the decision-making process, if We Don't Live Here Anymore is anything to go by.
Bride Of Chucky
Porn exposé documentary Inside Deep Throat is missing the testimony of Linda Lovelace's abusive husband. Mark Kermode recalls his encounter with Charles 'Chuck' Traynor.
Star Bores: Revenge Of The Fans
A blow-by-blow account of the terrible disappointment that has been the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
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