As the triumphant fifth season of US sitcom Veep ends with the ‘sit-’ scattered to the political winds, Ricky Young traces how things got there, and the oddity that is its continued success.
Il Cinema Ritrovato 2016
Philip Concannon went treasure hunting at Bologna’s Il Cinema Ritrovato festival, and here’s what he discovered.
Monoglot Movie Club: The Mexican Scand-off
Part of an occasional series in which Spank The Monkey travels to foreign countries, watches films in unfamiliar languages, and then complains about not understanding them. This episode: Norway, Finland and Sweden, June 2016.
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Edinburgh Film Festival 2016
Matthew Turner and Gareth Negus pick out their highlights from this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Fatale Attraction
A restored version of Charles Vidor’s 1946 film Gilda is released in the UK by The Criterion Collection today. Fiona Pleasance revisits a classic noir.
Y Tu, Ma Ma?
Laura Morgan is both dazzled and underwhelmed by Penelope Cruz’s latest film.
Mostly Pop June 2016
In which something yawns and it’s not MrMoth for once.
A Match Made In Heaven
Kate le Vann on the latest addition to Criterion’s UK blu-ray catalogue: 1941 supernatural body-swap romcom Here Comes Mr. Jordan.
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