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The video streaming industry has reached a tipping point.
This month, our academics have suggested everything from a drama exploring the AIDS epidemic, to the latest outing from Marvel, to a documentary about a cult.
It is important that Deaf actors play Deaf characters in TV and film, so that audiences engage with authentic depictions of disability.
Once teeming with life, many of Britain’s wartime airfields are abandoned and full of the ghostly memories.
Looking for something to dive into summer with? Our critics have you sorted.
The new Australian series The Artful Dodger is a surgical reworking of Oliver Twist, where the savagery is played for laughs.
A hundred years ago, a small animation studio was born. Today, its cultural reach is enormous.
The business acumen of those behind the scenes at Disney have been central to the peaks and troughs of the company.
Studios say the number is unrealistic − that it amounts to actors not assuming any financial risk for content that flops. But actors simply want to adapt existing payout models to changing technology.
The enjoyment of the show is not in working out who did it but in the eccentricities of the ever-turning plot.
As part of recent challenges, multiple services have removed TV and film from their libraries – in many cases, meaning they are gone forever, inaccessible to any fan.
American Born Chinese is a recent addition to stories of young people who grapple with what it means to be successful.
The story of Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s cult The Family has been told in a non-fiction book and documentary, a novel, In the Clearing, and now a Disney+ series. What can stories like this teach us?
Sub-brands such as Star and Hulu have allowed Disney to experiment with adult-themed content while protecting its core brand.
In a rousing speech, one of the “organisers” of the rebellion muses on the lifelong struggle of activists and wades into the debate on the best way to effectively resist.
Doctor Who episodes missing from the BBC archives have been recovered from Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Africa.
Both are orders of religious warriors and both were taken down by power-hungry rulers
Ms. Marvel represents a break from the ‘Muslim equals Middle Eastern’ portrayals popular in western media.
Time dilation might seem like science fiction, but it’s not. There are astronauts circling the Earth right now who are experiencing it – though luckily nowhere near as much as Buzz Lightyear.
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