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Arts & Culture.Jan 24, 2015

Reinventing the Reel: Inherent Vice

Film critic Ben Hynes on Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, a hazy adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Inherent Vice’.

By Tom Nixon
Arts & Culture.Dec 31, 2014

Editors’ Films of 2014

The best films of 2014, as selected by our editorial team.

By TMS Staff
Arts & Culture.Oct 31, 2014

Halloween: The TMS Alternative Horror Selection

The Missing Slate’s film team offer up their selection of alternative horror picks for Halloween.

By Tom Nixon
Arts & Culture.Oct 15, 2014

VIFF ’14 Vol. 1: Amirpour, Perry, Godard and the Dardennes

Ben Hynes begins his coverage of the 2014 Vancouver International Film Festival with capsules on ‘Two Days, One Night’, ‘Goodbye to Language’, ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ and ‘Listen Up Philip’.

By Tom Nixon
Arts & Culture.Aug 13, 2014

Private Theatre: Black Narcissus

Film critic Ben Hynes delves into Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1947 classic ‘Black Narcissus’.

By Tom Nixon
Arts & Culture.Jul 20, 2014

Private Theatre: Bigger Than Life

Film critic Ben Hynes claims Nicholas Ray’s ‘Bigger Than Life’ is “less a celebration of the ability of the individual to overcome addiction than a witheringly subtle jab at the fantasy of normality”.

By Tom Nixon
Arts & Culture.Jul 10, 2014

Private Theatre: The LEGO Movie

Film critic Ben Hynes on how ‘The Lego Movie’ functions as a “devious piece of propaganda for neoliberal capitalism.”

By Tom Nixon
Arts & Culture.Jul 3, 2014

Private Theatre: Under the Skin

In anticipation of its upcoming DVD release, film critic Ben Hynes delves deeper into the allegorical implications of Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Under the Skin’

By Tom Nixon