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Giving a movie subtitles or dubbing it into multiple languages makes commercial and cultural sense, but the process can be riddled with potential pitfalls.
Esports is huge business, attracting millions of players and huge tournament prizes. But investors are worried about the level of hype in the industry.
Realising the silence of outer space was what made us appreciate our precarious position down on this pale blue dot – so beginning our obsession with extinction.
With her writing, and her work as a publisher, Morrison brought the African-American experience to the fore in the US and around the world.
180 years before Love Island, Chopin and Sands travelled to Mallorca to pursue their romance.
Carry On films have been compared to a Leave voter’s wet dream. But they were more thoughtful and honest than that.
Those money-saving black boxes reveal a lot about the rules that govern our lives.
Catch 22 as seen by George Clooney is just far too good looking.
If you think English footy fans have it hard losing in the semis in far away away tournaments, imagine being French and losing the Tour de France on your home turf every year.
Faced with open and hidden prejudice, some British Muslims downplay their difference in public in order to succeed.
Why swimmers are protesting against China’s Sun Yang at the World Championships.
In the race to bring electricity to the masses, the crucial role that women played in it being accepted by the masses is left at the sidelines.
There was an outcry in the LGBT community when the ending of Fiona Shaw’s bestselling novel was changed for the film.
Women have been there in their imaginations.
Migration helped forge the very social, cultural and economic infrastructures that Britain now seeks to wall off from the rest of the world.
Chichester Cathedral’s stone effigy famously influenced Philip Larkin’s An Arundel Tomb. But a new discovery suggests it may have inspired the tale John Keats wrote as La Belle Dame Sans Merci too.
The church is itself divided on Brexit, but that doesn’t mean it can’t provide guidance for a polarised community.
It was the greatest advertisement for cricket, but now the game needs to be promoted to everyone, not hidden on pay-TV.
As Marvel’s 22nd blockbuster looks set to become the most successful film of all time, is Hollywood running out of original ideas?
The focus on the ageing of women is by no means a modern phenomenon.
Should sports journalists be able to hold athletes to account?
The show – and the public’s reaction – can tell us a huge amount about how ideas about love and romance have changed over the centuries.
Why 50/50 festival line-ups are not an easy solution to gender inequality.
Australia’s aggressive tennis star has been unfairly maligned in this instance.