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A book that defies the usual mystery formula, Death on the Nile is more than just a clever tale about murder.
Luma in a still from Andrea Arnold’s Cow (2021).
Kate Kirkwood
Andrea Arnold’s new film chronicles the daily strife of Luma – a dairy cow and mother.
Helen Winter is one of the German women created to retell the story of the Munich Crisis.
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Women were not really present during the signing of the Four Powers Agreement but they were at home in parliament. Film often demand sexy more sympathetic female characters
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Archives are working had to document stories from Protestants, Catholics, Nationalists, Unionists and even the British Forces.
Peter Dinklage’s Cyrano de Bergerac is missing the famous nose.
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There was a real man behind the swashbuckling hero who was as deft at sparring with his pen and sword as Rostand’s hero.
Sidney Poitier, seen here in a 1980 photograph.
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Poitier dazzled Hollywood with on-screen grace and bankability. His dignified roles and respectable values forever changed the image of Blacks, then mostly portrayed as maids, buffoons or criminals.
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They’re creepy, kooky and all together still a great film 30 years on.
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Babylonians were quite formal in their written records, so working out how to be chatty in their long-dead language was an exciting challenge.
Grayson Cooke
Clouds are central players in climate change, and ‘Path 99’ reveals them in a new light using data discarded by scientists.
Wong Kar-Wai’s In The Mood for Love (2000)
Mercury Cinema
Wong’s films explore the indelible passage of time as registered in the everyday lives of his unforgettable protagonists.
Eden Lakes’s monsters are a group of working class children.
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A wave of new horror films leant into Tony Blair’s Asbo policy demonising young working class men, portraying them as the monsters that society should be scared of.
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The history of martial arts films is almost as long as the history of cinema. Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings excitingly pushes the genre forward.
Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker.
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In a time of increasingly complex geopolitical entanglements and moral failings, these films articulate a yearning for unsullied heroism, effective leadership and appropriate responses to crises.
Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis directs his orchestra in May 2001.
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Composer and political activist Mikis Theodorakis has died at 96, but his music – and the famous Zorba dance – will continue.
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Urban legends are shaped by the people who tell them and where they’re from. That’s why you’ll hear so many versions of the same story.
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Guy is happy living his life unaware that he is just a character in a grand simulation. Could we all be doing same?
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The latest Disney-Pixar film has been seen as containing queer themes, but what is the animation studio trying to achieve?
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Sergio Leone is a classic example of dubbed post-war European film.
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Governments could use dubbing to censor ideas they didn’t like or insert messages in line with their propaganda.
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Cate Shortland is behind low-budget, art-house films, which focus on women’s coming of age stories. Now, she brings her signature cinematic style to the Marvel Universe.
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From The Drover’s Wife to a new Wes Anderson to the long-awaited Dune, it will be good to be back in cinemas again.