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A Dish Best Served Cold: Blue Ruin Reviewed

James Ubaghs reviews Jeremy Saulnier's low budget revenge thriller

Further Down the Spiral: Dark City A Decade On

Lost somewhere between _City of Lost Children_ and _The Matrix_, _Dark City_ finally gets the director's cut treatment. Andrew Stimpson takes another look at this cult classic.

Bande Du Film: Céline Sciamma’s Music Of The Future

French auteur Céline Sciamma uses music sparingly in her films – but it's always vital to unlock a richer world, finds Rory Doherty

Capital Idea! Children’s Film Foundation: London Tales Explored

Adrian Lobb enjoys a new BFI DVD compiling three features created by the Children's Film Foundation, which shows London, its youth and stories for kids gradually evolving. Still from Operation Third Form

Cinematic Santas – The Least Convincing And Naughtiest Santas on Film

In the spirit of humbuggery, The Quietus looks at some of the worst excuses for Santa ever to disgrace the silver screen, and provides Top Trumps-style stats on their performance. Whether they're slightly implausible or just plain evil, this bunch is a disgrace to the ruddy uniform.

Behind The Wheel: Drive Reviewed

Silence Please – The City Is Singing: Viennale Film Festival Reviewed

Stephen Dalton finds more than an excellent film programme at the Viennale Film Festival

Blue Sunshine: The Mall On Film

Forty years later, Robert Barry looks at Jeff Lieberman's bizarre acid-fried horror film, Blue Sunshine, as one of the great mall films of the late 1970s

The Best From Berlin: Berlinale Film Festival Report

Our man in Germany Stephen Dalton takes a look at the best the Berlinale film festival had to offer this year and reports back to The Quietus