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Monoglot Movie Club: Jakarta The Unstoppable Sex Machine
Part of an occasional series in which Spank The Monkey travels to foreign countries, watches films in unfamiliar languages, and then complains about not understanding them. This episode: Indonesia,...
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It Only Happens In The Movies?
Spank The Monkey previews the Japan Foundation’s 2015 touring film programme, in UK cinemas from January 30th to March 26th. For some reason, the title of this year’s Japan Foundation tour is written...
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Monoglot Movie Club: All In The Game
Part of an occasional series in which Spank The Monkey travels to foreign countries, watches films in unfamiliar languages, and then complains about not understanding them. This episode: Japan,...
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Monoglot Movie Club: The Copenhagen Interpretation
Part of an occasional series in which Spank The Monkey travels to foreign countries, watches films in unfamiliar languages, and then complains about not understanding them. This episode: Denmark,...
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Dogs in refrigerators
Spank The Monkey reviews John Wick: the film that takes the Sad Keanu meme, throws it to the ground and shoots it in the face. A few dozen billion bits: that’s all a movie is nowadays. Over the last...
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MAYstly Links
When the film he was meant to be reviewing today has its release date pushed back by a couple of weeks, Spank The Monkey is forced to burble spacefillingly about the nature of truth. It’s a weekend of...
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Tokyo Tribe
Spank The Monkey reviews the world’s first battle rap musical. Just be grateful he didn’t try to make this standfirst rhyme. As the cliché has it, there are two kinds of people in this world: the ones...
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Wild Untold Stories
As Electric Boogaloo opens in UK cinemas, Spank The Monkey looks at Mark Hartley’s trilogy of documentaries exploring the underside of cinema history. How do people give themselves an education in...
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Monoglot Movie Club: Live At Pompeii
Part of an occasional series in which Spank The Monkey travels to foreign countries, watches films in unfamiliar languages, and then complains about not understanding them. Episode 20: Italy, June...
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Mostly MIFfy 2015
The Manchester International Festival is an 18 day celebration of the best new artistic work from around the world. Here’s what Spank The Monkey saw there during two of those days. Well, that’s Alex...
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Monoglot Movie Club: A Gulf Of Misunderstanding
Part of an occasional series in which Spank The Monkey travels to foreign countries, watches films in unfamiliar languages, and then complains about not understanding them. This episode: Qatar,...
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Love is in the Ground
Four years ago on this site, Spank The Monkey described Nekromantik 2 as “a film I still hold as a personal benchmark of Going Too Far in the movies.” From next week, you’ll be able to buy it in the...
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By The Sword: The Assassin
Commencing Spank The Monkey’s two-part examination of Taiwanese martial arts cinema, past and present. I’m not going to lie to you: I don’t get along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien all that much. I watched a...
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By The Sword: A Touch Of Zen
Concluding Spank The Monkey’s two-part examination of Taiwanese martial arts cinema, past and present. It may be a coincidence: it may have been cunning planning on someone’s part. But for the purposes...
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Highs and Lows
Spank The Monkey presents his annual round-up of the Japan Foundation’s touring film programme, playing in selected UK cinemas from February 5th to March 26th 2016. Most people, if they’re aware of the...
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Monoglot Movie Club: The Ministry Of Happiness
Part of an occasional series in which Spank The Monkey travels to foreign countries, watches films in unfamiliar languages, and then complains about not understanding them. This episode: Dubai,...
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A Grand Tour
A study of the great film studios of Old Europe. Or, at least, the bits of them they open up to tourists. Text by Spank The Monkey, photographs by The Belated Birthday Girl. Elstree. Pinewood....
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Monoglot Movie Club: Another Grand Tour
Part of an occasional series in which Spank The Monkey travels to foreign countries, watches films in unfamiliar languages, and then complains about not understanding them. This episode: Germany and...
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Monoglot Movie Club: Garbage Language For Garbage People
Part of an occasional series in which Spank The Monkey travels to foreign countries, watches films in unfamiliar languages, and then complains about not understanding them. This episode: Denmark, April...
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Monoglot Movie Club: Local Films For Local People
Part of an occasional series in which Spank The Monkey travels to foreign countries, watches films in unfamiliar languages, and then complains about not understanding them. This episode: Dubai, May...
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