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A Review of A Portrait of a Lady on Fire
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Little Women: Is another film adaptation really necessary?
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Modern Love: A Declaration of Love in all its Forms
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'Don't Look Now': Venice in Film
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John Carpenter’s ‘They Live’: A Hard-Hitting Wake-Up Call
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‘Velvet Buzzsaw’: Artfully Dodge this Horror
I am usually the first to avoid horror films, but the trailer for Netflix’s Velvet Buzzsaw intrigued me. A horror film concerning the art...
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'Mary Queen of Scots': Women in Tudor Britain
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The Favourite: Duck Racing, Voguing and Sapphism in the Court of Queen Anne.
It’s a Tuesday night at a cinema in Peckham, we’re sat in Screen 4. The atmosphere feels giddy with anticipation for what we’re about to...