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We’re living in a golden age of close reading.
From smoking and drinking to body image and stigma, screen stories can shape how audiences think about health, risk and what counts as normal.
The future of Shakespeare may well lie beyond the English language.
For more than a decade, self-professed cinephiles have flocked to the studio for edgy content. But how long can it retain its cult status?
When I saw the Brazilian film The Blue Trail at the Leeds Film Festival earlier this year, it felt like a breath of fresh air.
Can we ever really understand Chernobyl? These five shows and videogames give a pretty good glimpse of what the disaster entailed.
The Blue Trail is a thoroughly original story in which two older women are capable of newness, independence and transformation against all odds.
Akira is considered one of the big-three classics of cyberpunk.
If a straightforward happy ending is what you are after, Departures is not the film for you.
Paddington in the books is an incredibly sincere, polite bear who takes the rules a little too literally.
Fashion, film, Nazi mythology and a film to scare the bejasus out of you this week.
This film offers an invitation to return and reflect on Camus’ work.
Hoppers arrives 17 years after Wall-E, Pixar’s last overtly environmentally themed film.
Originally invented for billiard balls, this new material revolutionised photography – and paved the way for cinema.
The average shot length in Moulin Rouge! is under two seconds. While acceptable for an action movie, nothing like this had ever been done in a musical.
Host Conan O’Brien kept the political references to harmless jokes.
Between the glitzy celebration of cinematic escapism, and constant reminders of our dark and complicated world, this year’s ceremony felt somewhat disjointed.
A series of confessions, obtained under torture have shaped the order’s legacy in film.
Arco shares an audio-visual heritage with Studio Ghibli films.
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