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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 invited to screen his work

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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 of summer quite like the

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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, a hungover, hot-headed vagabond carring enough

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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 routine sorted. He’s shocked, as

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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 six writers for a programme of

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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 his previous looks at alien

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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. Directed by Sara Dosa, whose

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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 off against a sinister corporation. But

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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 a greater cultural ecosystem that continues

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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, has been part of a two-year