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Image Credit: Epic Games via Polygon Duncan Jones, the director behind Warcraft and Moon, will be bringing Rogue Trooper, one of the 2000 AD properties of Oxford-based comics publishers Rebellion, to the big screen. The director sparked intense fan speculation last week by teasing that his next film would be based on a mystery comic book […]
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Dorian, a student-produced six-episode webseries based on the Oscar Wilde novel A Picture of Dorian Gray, will wrap up filming this summer after three years of development. I talked to co-directors and writers Tara Snelling and Elli Siora, both at Regent’s Park, about the difficulties of sustaining a project for this long, adapting Wilde for […]
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A few days ago, I watched the last episode ever of Once Upon a Time – again. You may think that, having done exactly the same thing almost exactly a year ago, with what was then supposed to be the concluding episode of the entire series, the emotional impact of the experience could not be […]
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The humble music video is an integral part of the entertainment industry today. Whether it’s watching ‘OK Go’ dancing on treadmills, or a-ha performing in a comic-book world, it’s fair to say that they’ll be around for a while yet. But given the amount of people involved in the production, from directors to makeup and […]
Continue ReadingIt’s a man’s world, and in comedy that holds true. Whether it’s Hollywood or stand-up, the funny side of the entertainment business is a largely male-dominated arena. When asked, ‘Who is your favourite comedian or actor?’, answers like Seth Rogen and Aziz Ansari often come before anyone mentions Betty White or Tina Fey. When an […]
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Anyone turning to Fleabag for the first time cannot but help bring with them a whole parade of preconceptions about modern comedy as it tells the tale of the socially awkward singleton, the overly-open protagonist, the emotionally damaged and manipulative, dishonest and perverted owner of a guinea-pig themed café in London. The creator and main […]
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Last year, professional oddball James Franco directed and starred in The Disaster Artist, a movie documenting the making of The Room (2003). Directed, written, and produced by, as well as starring, the mysterious Tommy Wiseau, The Room is mesmerizingly awful on every level, and was panned by every critic who saw it on its original […]
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With Arrested Development’s long-awaited fifth season set to drop on Netflix at the end of this month, a good five years after the previous season, a recut edition of its controversial fourth season has come out. The original season four was different to the previous seasons in that rather than having the earlier seasons’ traditional […]
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Looking back at the first Avengers film, it is sometimes hard to believe how much the Marvel Cinematic Universe has changed. In the six years since 2012, Marvel Studios has produced thirteen more films and a franchise that is unlike anything cinema has seen before. Perhaps even more shocking is how much the women of […]
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We’ve all sat down after a long day of essays or labs with a cup of tea, intending to enjoy an episode of a Netflix original series and not having to think about anything, when that blissful calm is utterly blown to pieces by some of the ridiculous things that the characters say. Netflix shows […]
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120 BPM opens with a weekly meeting of the AIDS activist group ACT UP-Paris on which the film centres. Sophie (Adèle Haenel), one of the lead organisers, introduces the group: ‘On est ACT UP-Paris’ (‘We’re ACT UP-Paris’). It’s strange to hear the name of the famous AIDS activist group in a French accent, a strangeness […]
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After 10 years, 18 films, and 10 television series – with more still to come – it’s unlikely you’ve never heard of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This is quite a turnaround from Marvel’s last foray into filmmaking in the 80s and 90s, the output of which, including 1986’s infamous Howard the Duck, were not as […]
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Contemplating the possible reasons for his presence at the 48th Academy Awards, Miloš Forman wittily suggested that academy members had recognised his directorial work because “Last year I spent more time in a mental institution than the others [nominees]”. Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest managed the great achievement of the Oscar ‘Big 5’ […]
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From indie one-timer Will Allen’s semi-autobiographical Holy Hell, to bona fide Hollywood giant Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, filmmakers have always been attracted to cults. There is something eerily attractive about life on the inside. The latest addition to the already well-stocked library of documentaries on this subject is Chaplain and Maclain Way’s neat, Netflix-funded […]
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Here at Oxford we don’t always need help when we want to have a cry, but there’ll always be a place in our film collection for those movies that earn a sob or two. These are our top 5 tearjerkers: Brokeback Mountain (2005) Brokeback Mountain is a tale of forbidden love between two cowboys, Jack, […]
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Believe it or not fellow gamers, but April 11th 2018 marked the 10th anniversary of Mario Kart Wii’s UK release. In honour of the game that encouraged hubris, pathos and lifelong grudges, let’s take a look back at some of the game’s most notable tracks: Luigi Circuit Colloquial Names: Basic Boi, Noob Street No, […]
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A Gentle Creature, Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s third narrative film, is bleak, grotesque and mercilessly compelling. The title’s ‘gentle creature’ (Vasilina Makovtseva), a Russian woman with her husband behind bars, finds one day that her parcel to him has been returned without explanation. Travelling through a shattered country to discover why her spouse has disappeared […]
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Gossip Girl: the iconic teen drama about the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite, to quote the anonymous blogger herself. A classic binge-watch for countless young adults, the show’s influence is great even six years after its finale, both due to Blair’s notoriously preppy wardrobe and, though by no means the first or last series to […]
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If I used an Outkast song to depict season two of Atlanta, I would keep it local with “Elevators (Me and You)”. It’s more than coincidence that the song provides the mood for the finale of season one and sets the outré mood for a powerful sophomore season. As Earn (Donald Glover) strolls down a […]
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