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Joined13th May 2010
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Censor
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Censor

"The dreariness of the surroundings only serves to accentuate the gleeful extravagance of the Giallo-style violence" - Hugh McCabe on Censor
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Arrival
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Arrival

'a beautifully shot, well acted, and thoughtful science fiction movie' - Hugh McCabe on Denis Villeneuve's Arrival
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War Dogs

"We’re still waiting for a film that does any justice to the catastrophic follies of the Bush administration’s military adventures and War Dogs is certainly not it" - Hugh McCabe on War Dogs
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Chevalier

"often hilarious but the humour is constantly undercut by a feeling of unease and by a lurking violence" - Hugh McCabe on Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Chevalier
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Drive Like Jehu at Primavera Sound 2016
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Primavera Sound 2016

'This is 2016 and we are on the Continent after all' - Hugh McCabe recaps his weekend at Barcelona's Primavera Sound
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Anohni – HOPELESSNESS

'we see what happens when the political becomes deeply personal' - Hugh McCabe on Anohni's HOPELESSNESS
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Eye In The Sky

Eye In The Sky is a "slickly entertaining but ideologically duplicitous drone thriller," says Hugh McCabe
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Joanna Newsom – Divers

'the music still swoops and soars and gleefully revels in the sheer scale of its own ambition' - Hugh McCabe on Joanna Newsom's Divers

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Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness

'rooted in equal parts medieval Baroque, 20th Century experimentalism and West Coast pop songwriting' - Hugh McCabe on Julia Holter's Have You In My Wilderness

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Irrational Man

'Is the world a better or worse place with one more mediocre Woody Allen film in it?' - Hugh McCabe on Woody Allen's latest movie, Irrational Man

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