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Off the Deep End: Fred Halsted’s Slippery Sadism
A man in a leather jacket emerges from a dark void and approaches the camera. His movements are unsteady, but his gaze …
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Lost in Translation: The unsung art of subtitling
R ead through the list of the winners of the International Booker Prize, you will find the author, their book’s title, a…
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The Last Showgirl review – dreamy and low-key to a fault
H er voice is not the attribute for which Pamela Anderson has ever been most known, but it’s the best thing about The La…
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Heightened Drama: Inside the operatic adaptation of Festen
“Y ou can’t have any music,” said Thomas Vinterberg in a 2015 interview about his 1998 film Festen , created using the D…
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How Mouthwashing continues Alien’s condemnation of worker exploitation
Content warning: Discussion of sexual assault and suicide. W hat does it mean to be expendable? Over the pandemic, many…
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Mickey 17 review – gross and heartwarming in equal measure
T he way things are going, even the most speculative sci-fi feels entirely plausible – take Edward Ashton’s ‘Mickey 7’ f…
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Has WWE become another cog in the Netflix machine?
T here’s a Dwayne Johnson tweet that I think about a lot. It’s from December 19th 2024, off the back of the recent relea…
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This city is our playground: A drive-by of Grand Theft Auto machinima
T he moving image – what a fraught, fraught phrase. As animation is continually slighted and short films are seen as mer…
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I’m Still Here review – memory as resistance
A s they drag their sand-covered feet from Ipanema beach to their house across the road in 1970, the Paiva children can’…
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September Says review – uncanny and tender
W hen we first meet September and July, their mother Sheela (Rakhee Thakrar) is instructing them on how to pose in their…
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Making Sense of Life Without Her: On Chantal Akerman
Content Warning: Discussion of suicide. For R, wherever you are. F rom the start, it seemed like Chantal Akerman’s wor…
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The Monkey review – Theo James goes ape
“T he thing with this toy monkey is that the people around it all die in insane ways,” Osgood Perkins told Empire Magazi…
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Yi Yi, or Y2K
I n an early scene of Edward Yang’s final film Yi Yi, Wu Nien-jen’s jaded businessman NJ and Issey Ogata’s enigmatic gam…
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I Am Martin Parr review – a one-sided artist portrait
W hat a strange little promo piece this is for the venerated British documentary photographer Martin Parr. He is an arti…
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