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  • La Jetée podcast

    La Jetée podcast

    Robert and Rachael look wt Chris Marker’s La Jetée in the new CinePunked podcasr. … More La Jetée podcast

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  • CinePunked presents Spellbound at Psychoanalytic Film Club

    CinePunked present Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound as part of the Psychoanalytic Film Club … More CinePunked presents Spellbound at Psychoanalytic Film Club

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  • Valentine’s Love Witch podcast double bill – Anna Biller talks to CinePunked

    CinePunked release a double bill of podcasts for Valentine’s week – we look at cult film The Love Witch and director Anna Biller talks to Robert JE Simpson … More Valentine’s Love Witch podcast double bill – Anna Biller talks to CinePunked

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  • Review: The Haunting of Hill House (2018)

    Let’s just start by erasing from memory 1999’s spectacularly overwrought, CGI-heavy nonsense. It’s better that way. For the purposes of discussion, the only Hill House texts that exist are Shirley Jackson’s seminal 1959 novel, the 1963 film adaptation (in which the title, as in 1999, was shortened to The Haunting), and the 2018 Netflix Original

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  • CinePunked presents Gaslight at Crescent Arts Centre Belfast 2 Feb 2019

    Gaslight (v.) – To manipulate someone by psychological mehans into doubting their own sanity. (Source: Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton.) The Oxford Dictionary has it as one of their words of 2018, from #metoo to #fakenews, the concept of gaslighting has never been more visible. Join CinePunked for a screening on the film that gave the

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  • Review: Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller, 2018)

    Can You Ever Forgive Me? May as well be Withnail and I Part 2. Melissa McCarthy and Richard E Grant feed effortlessly off each other’s energy in this actor’s dream film about an immensely unlikeable writer. CinePunked’s Robert JE Simpson reviews. … More Review: Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller, 2018)

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  • Review: The Mule (Clint Eastwood, 2018)

    Clint Eastwood’s The Mule is an out-dated, mysogynistic, racist waste of time, says CinePunked’s Robert JE Simpson … More Review: The Mule (Clint Eastwood, 2018)

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  • CinePunked at CS Lewis Festival, November 2018

    CinePunked are delighted to be contributing to this year’s CS Lewis Festival in East Belfast, with both Rachael and Robert making solo appearances alongside one of their trademark interactive panels. This year’s festival is themed around Lewis’ book Of This And Other Worlds, and our own Rachael featured prominently in publicity imagery for the fest

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  • Podcast: Art vs Artist

    Our latest podcast is now up – debating Art vs Artist. … More Podcast: Art vs Artist

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  • Podcast: You Can’t Kill the Bogeyman

    You’ve been wonderfully patient, but we’re back with a new run of the CinePunked podcast. Over the next few weeks on the podcast there’s quite a bit of horror related content – it is the season after all. We’re also doing a number of live events so keep your eyes out for those (not literally…

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