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Radical Film School and the Political Cinema of…

As a Palestinian filmmaker, Farouky has first-handedly experienced the fickle franchising of radical aesthetics from national platforms. He has previously been…

1 month ago

Making A Splash: Remembering Hockney Onscreen

It seems oddly fitting that David Hockney’s death should coincide with a heatwave. After all, nobody can evoke the languorous feeling…

1 month ago

Supergirl review – a mid-field superhero affair

For generations, Superman has been the poster boy of polished, all-American heroism. He meets his antithesis in Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl,…

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Nino review – fails to pull its punches

While at the GP collecting some routine test results, Nino (Théodore Pellerin) is suddenly asked if he has his cancer-care…

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Porous Encounters: A Queer East Correspondence

This is the second of three pieces published in collaboration with Queer East Film Festival, whose Emerging Critics project brought together…

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Disclosure Day | The War Of The Worlds | Close Encounters Of The Third Kind | E.T.

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day. We then take a look at some of…

2 months ago

Time and Water review – a lament for a…

“I cannot send you a glacier, but at least I can send you this.” Time and Water sets out its purpose early on.…

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Disclosure Day review – distinctly lacking in…

So far, so Spielberg – he sets the stage for an ambitious, epic, action-heavy story about a group of do-gooders facing…

2 months ago

Scary Movie review – belated return of the…

Like an irksome stinging insect nonetheless vital to controlling excess animal population, the Scary Movie franchise serves a worthy function in…

2 months ago

Inside Chronically Online: a big-screen…

The British Film Institute was following a similar trail of hyperlinks. Kitty Robertson, an assistant curator at the BFI National Archive,…

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