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‘People with Learning Disabilities Can Be Overprotected’: A New Film Talking About Death
Saba Salman reports on a significant project that involves people with learning disabilities addressing the issues directly and shaping the narrative
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‘Children of Men’ – 17 Years On: A Grave Warning to a Nation Adrift
The 2006 film set in a dystopian London of the future has much to say about modern Britain – especially the ‘doom loop’ trapping younger generations, writes Matt Gallagher
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The Entertainment Industry’s Dark Underbelly: How TV and Film Freelancers Suffer in Silence
Most freelancers do not report abuse within the industry due to a fear of reputational damage, says the national secretary of the broadcasting and entertainment union
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‘Why Jean-Luc Godard (Still) Matters’
Graham Williamson reflects on how the late French film director wove together arts and politics, transforming cinema forever
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‘Mr Jones’ Review: A Timely If Flawed Watch on the Ukrainian Holodomor
As another Russian dictator uses Ukrainian grain as a weapon of war, this 2020 historical thriller is worth a watch, writes Ellin Stein
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Top Gun Maverick: Aerial Warfare, Unmanned
As fiction, Tom Cruise’s sequel to his 80s blockbuster longs for the days of the single warrior in combat, when air-launched explosive violence is all about ground attacks often with civilian casualties
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In Limbo: Understanding the Painful, Human Existence of Asylum Seekers
While Priti Patel and the tabloid press seek to protect our borders from those who need protection, one film has broken the mould, writes Deborah Shaw
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The Rejection of Disabled Creativity – Enough Is Enough
Penny Pepper explores the failure of the diversity and inclusion trope for disabled people with a variety of stories to tell
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Matt Hancock Sleeps with the Fishes…
Mic Wright on Boris Johnson’s obsession with The Godfather, and why director Francis Ford Coppola decried him for bringing “the beloved United Kingdom to ruin”
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Heroes and Anti-Heroes: Why True Life Dramas Need Light and Shade
Ellin Stein looks at the power of moral complexity as played out in two BAFTA nominated films based on real events
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Review: ‘I Care a Lot’ – The Respectable Face of Mobster Mentality
Jon Bailes explains how the Golden Globe-winning part played by Rosamund Pike represents a new professionalised Gangster Paradise
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The Hounding of Billie Holiday
Chris Sullivan reviews the documentary ‘Billie’, detailing how one of the greatest singers of all time was hunted by officers at the Federal Bureau of Narcotics
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Brexit’s Toll On Britain’s Creative Industries: The Sadness and Madness that Awaits
Composer Howard Goodall sets out what performers will need to know in a post-Brexit world and reflects on the sorrow of the Government’s desire to erect barriers, when the job of creatives is to tear them down
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‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ and the Prosecution of America
This Netflix depiction of mass protests repressed by brutal state violence has stark parallels to today, says Ellin Stein
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‘Cuties’ Recycles the Same Damaging Stereotypes About Muslim Women – But Where was the Outrage?
Amina Shareef reviews Cuties, which has attracted criticism for its over-sexualisation of young girls, and finds a troubling portrayal of Muslim femininity
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The Odeon of Death Film of the Month: Tenet’s Extra
The Odeon of Death takes a look at the month’s events through the medium of cinema – this time a mind-bending sci-fi espionage thriller Tenet’s Extra (2020) It’s the mind-bending sci-fi espionage thriller the critics are calling “Conservatism on acid” Due to a mutant algorithm, a CIA operative enters an inverted world, in which the…
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Tufton Street and News International Actions Show that Extinction Rebellion is Evolving
Stephen Colegrave talks to co-founder of the Writer’s Rebel group, Jessica Townsend, about their shifting strategy and where XR is heading next Jessica Townsend joined Extinction Rebellion (XR) early on and was present at the declaration and the first rebellion. Originally, she didn’t intend to become an environmental activist but was writing her first novel…
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Infamous: A Bonnie and Clyde Tale in the Instagram Era
Chris Sullivan reviews Infamous, a new dramatisation of the insatiable lust for fame
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The Traitor: An Italian Mafia Drama With Shades of Boris Johnson’s Britain
Chris Sullivan reviews ‘The Traitor’, a brutal Italian story of crime and corruption, and finds parallels with the UK
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In the Search for Truth, We Have to Take Off Our Masks
Reverend Joe Haward considers what the pursuit of truth really involves and how knowledge of this is being manipulated by our politicians
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The Odeon of Death Film of the Month: I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
The Odeon of Death takes a look at the month’s events through the medium of cinema.
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Sci-Fi Dystopias No Longer Warnings, but an Inspiration to Silicon Valley Billionaires
Jon Bailes looks at the social stratification in the TV remake of Snowpiercer and the new Final Fantasy video game and sees an instruction manual for the Uber-rich.
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REVIEW: Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans – ‘Heartbreaking Genius of Staggering Over-Simplification’
Rupert Read and Deepak Raghani lament the film’s fatalism and argue that there is a ‘managed descent’ from our current dangerous energy dependencies.
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Odeon of Death Film of the Month: Caws
The Odeon of Death takes a look at events through the medium of cinema
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Why Every Zombie Apocalypse Movie Was Wrong
In light of the realities of COVID-19, Peter Jukes explores what our myths about pandemics and alien invasions told us about sorry selves.
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Odeon Of Death Film of the Month: Planet of the Goats
The Odeon of Death takes a look at the month’s events through the medium of cinema.
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Lockdown with Chris Sullivan: Volume One
Looking for an album, film or book to make our new Coronavirus reality more bearable? Why not start here…
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‘Misbehaviour’ Misses the Mark
Chris Sullivan reviews a new take on the 1970 Miss World pageant and explores the debate about sex and race which it exposed.
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‘The True Story of Ned Kelly’: Criminal or Freedom Fighter?
Chris Sullivan reviews an adaptation of the Booker Prize-winning novel that explores the boundary between banditry and rebellion.
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Odeon of Death Film of the Month: 28 Kids Later
The Odeon of Death takes a look at the month’s events through the medium of cinema.
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‘Dark Waters’: Bringing A Corporation To Account
Chris Sullivan reviews a new film exploring corporate destruction and greed and the tenacity of lawyers and litigants to achieve accountability and justice.
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‘Greed’ is Good: A Fast, Funny and Infuriating Take on the Emptiness of Acquisition
Chris Sullivan reviews a new comedy drama based on one of Britain’s most controversial modern businessmen.
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‘Cosh Boy’ Review: Gang Culture is the Stuff that Newspaper Sales are Made Of
Chris Sullivan explains how the tabloid panic about knife crime today is a repeat of the 1950s and wonders when we’ll actually do something about the real causes.
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Hollywood’s Take on Poverty and the Financial Crisis Lacks Political Bite
Jon Bailes considers whether big screen hits such as The Big Short and The Laundromat actually leave viewers inspired to act for political change or informed but pessimistic.
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‘1917’ Review: Tales my Grandfather Never Told Me
Chris Sullivan rates Sam Mendes’ new war film up with the classics and remembers his grandfather’s survival through the worst of World War One.
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History Isn’t ‘Woke’ – It’s the Best Defence we have Against Tyranny and Hate
Hardeep Matharu explains how Laurence Fox’s myopia about the role of Sikh soldiers in World War One is a wider British problem of imperial amnesia.
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Fox in the Coop: The Legacy of Roger Ailes
Ellin Stein reviews two dramatisations of the life and crimes of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News supremo.
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‘La Dolce Vita’ Review: A Stylish and Thought-Provoking Look at Celebrity Culture and Its Cost
Chris Sullivan reviews the 1960 classic which has left its mark on our culture in many ways, beyond simply its famous title.
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Odeon of Death Film of the Week: Starmer Wars
The Odeon of Death takes a look at the week’s events through the medium of cinema. This week Starmer Wars (2020)
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Odeon of Death Film of the Week: The Maligning
The Odeon of Death takes a look at the week’s events through the medium of cinema. The Maligning (2019) Bad spirits are summoned when a caretaker takes a hatchet to a beloved old institution, in this classic horror starring Jack Nicholson as Jeremy Torrance, the man who puts the Red in Redrum. Can Jess Phillips (Shelley Duvall)…
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‘Citizen K’ Review: A Prescient Warning of Oligarchical State Takeover in Russia
Chris Sullivan reviews the latest documentary from Academy Award-winning Alex Gibney which follows the story of one of Russia’s richest men, now exiled in the UK.
