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I went to see a franchise horror movie hoping for mind-emptying mayhem. What I got was a shoddy dig at US domestic politics
Subject: Popular cultureWidescreen
On a recent working trip to Iraq, I met a talented young boy I hope to introduce to his rich heritage of Kurdish filmmaking
Subject: Popular cultureWidescreen
3D films are the latest thing. But I think they remove one of the most pleasurable aspects of cinema—using your brain
Widescreen
I’ve just come back from pulling a 34-tonne mobile cinema on foot across Scotland. More film festivals should be like this one
Widescreen
Mark Cousins
— 23rd July 2009 — Issue 161 
Sacha Baron Cohen’s new film Brüno is like his last one, Borat: a squirm-inducing travelogue that finds what it expects to
A dish best served boiling hot
Mark Cousins
— 4th July 2009 — Issue 160
The great theme of cinema at the moment is vengeance. And our appetite for punishment seems to be getting more ferocious
Widescreen
Beyond its brilliant visuals, the new Star Trek is a blockbuster with a brain—and a progressive political message to boot
Widescreen
The editing of films is both a science and an art—and one of the most powerful keys we have for unlocking cinema’s secrets
Widescreen
From a distance, Hong Kong cinema can seem thin. But up close there’s a depth to it and a dizzying, kaleidoscopic aesthetic
Widescreen
Thanks to Danny Boyle, Indian cinema is being discussed globally. But the west is still largely ignorant of its canon and its subtleties
Mark Cousins
Mark Cousins’s collected columns, “Widescreen: Watching Real People Elsewhere,” are published by Wallflower Press
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