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Missing The Jackpot: William Gibson’s Slow-Cooked Apocalypse

With his latest novel, Agency, set in an alternative present, without Trump and without Brexit, William Gibson talks multicausal Armageddons – and Dominic Cummings

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A Question of Attribution: An American Story And The Literature Of 9/11

The new novel by Christopher Priest, An American Story, joins a growing literature concerned with, or circulating around, the atrocities on 9/11. Author and critic Nina Allan weighs up the competition

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Phantom Flesh: Extreme Performance Artist Stelarc Interviewed

Our man in Poland, Filip Kalinowski interviews renowned artist Stelarc about the future of the body and human consciousness

Film

20 Years On: Alien 3 Reassessed

Vilified, disregarded and worshipped in equal measure, Alien 3 is one of the most divisive franchise movies of all time. On its 20th anniversary Andrew Stimpson revaluates David Fincher's troubled directorial debut

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Approximating A Cyber World: An Interview with Black Rain

New York duo Black Rain have just reissued some of their lost soundtrack work from the mid-nineties, music that feels stunningly current despite its age. Joseph Burnett caught up with Stuart Argabright to chat NYC history, no-wave, meat cleavers and science fiction

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New Punk Design Book & Exhibition Due

Publication of Punk: An Aesthetic accompanied by new exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London

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If I Had A Hammer – Thor: The Dark World Reviewed

Thor-midable or merely Thor-mulaic? Mat Colegate casts his cycloptic single eye over the latest in the Marvel superheroes franchise

Film

Is It A Turd? Man Of Steel Reviewed
Contains spoilers

C'mon, there was no way that headline was going unused. Mat Colegate reviews the latest attempt to bring Superman to the big screen

Film

Nowhere Man: ‘Slacker’ At 30 And The Evolution Of The Conspiracy Theorist

Richard Linklater's hangout classic Slacker turns 30 this year, and with it, the real-life parallels grow more curious. Conspiracy theorists often are those hiding in plain sight, finds Daniel Broadley

Film

Blank Generation: Jim Jarmusch’s Permanent Vacation

With the BFI's Jim Jarmusch season underway Michael Wojtas has a look back at the director's 1980 feature debut

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Courtney Love Reforms Classic Hole Line-Up

Love reunites with Auf Der Maur, Erlandson and Schemel

Film

Toy Story 2 At 20: Mortality And Acceptance On The Edge Of 30

Celebrating the anniversary of a bona fide animated masterpiece gives weight to reflection on the meaning of life itself, far beyond the promise of just another sparky animation, finds Karl Smith

Film

Nothing Fabulous Lasts: Fleshback, Studio 54 & Alt-Sex Clubbing On Film

With the release of new films Fleshback and Studio 54, Soma Ghosh looks through the cinematic history of alternative sexual identities and the clubs they let loose in

Film

Super Zeros: Kick Ass 2 Reviewed

Mat Colegate Hulks out on 'real-world' superhero sequel Kick Ass 2

Film

Kneale Before Satan: The Witches Reviewed

Mat Colegate settles down with a glass of hemlock to view the new release of The Witches, a 1966 occult horror film from the pen of cult scribe Nigel Kneale

Film

“Fix Your F*cking Face!” The Film Roles Of Mark Kozelek

To Mark his cameo in Paolo Sorrentino's Youth, Oliver Lunn looks back over the acting roles of Red House Painter, Sun Kil Moon-er and arch wind-up-merchant Mark Kozelek

Film

Sci-Fi in Translation: Dante 01 and La Antena

Can foreign filmmakers inject new life into the tired genre of science fiction? Yes and no, finds Dave Moats.

Film

Vampish, Vulgar and Vacuous: Fellini’s La Citta Delle Donne Reappraised

Colm McAuliffe knees Fellini in the ghoulies having watched the director's La Citta Delle Donne (City Of Women), recently re-released on Blu-ray and DVD by Eureka Entertainment

Film

You Can Be Anything: On Oscar Micheaux, History’s Most Prolific African American Filmmaker

Controversial yet mainstream, Oscar Micheaux is the often forgotten African-American filmmaker who paved the way for Steve McQueen, Spike Lee and Childish Gambino. Soma Ghosh guides us through Micheaux's history

Film

Coming Of Age: Richard Linklater’s Boyhood Reviewed

Gary Green grows old gracefully in the company of Richard Linklater's latest.

Film

A Deafening Glory: On Sound Of Metal And The Hell Of Noise

Darius Marder's bold debut Sound of Metal asks the viewer to understand rock and deafness as two contradictory things – but it's a complex history, finds Soma Ghosh

Film

He Makes You Think He’s Lost When He’s Won: On Chadwick Boseman

The devastating news of the death of Chadwick Boseman, the actor whose intelligent vulnerability redefined portrayals of Black heroes for a beseiged generation, brought the world to the halt. Soma Ghosh remembers the late, great artist

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Articles 5

Missing The Jackpot: William Gibson’s Slow-Cooked Apocalypse

A Question of Attribution: An American Story And The Literature Of 9/11

Phantom Flesh: Extreme Performance Artist Stelarc Interviewed

20 Years On: Alien 3 Reassessed

Approximating A Cyber World: An Interview with Black Rain

News 1

New Punk Design Book & Exhibition Due

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