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Image description: Cinema lobby lit up in neon pink lighting Cinemas have reopened, and according to my completely unbiased and totally comprehensive research, nobody in England is as excited about this as I am. I was never a massive film fan before the pandemic; I’d usually watch a few Oscar nominees and winners annually to […]
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Image description: A sand dune in the desert with a blue sky behind it. Acting phenomenon Timothée Chalamet, who rocketed to prominence back in 2018 by starring alongside Armie Hammer in Director Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name, and has since starred in Netflix’s retelling of Henry V’s ascension to power in The King […]
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Image Description: A illustration of a scene from Mulan Oh, glorious CGI! We are a slave to your technicolour dreamscapes, your larger-than-life monsters. It seems remarkable to me to re-watch the first Harry Potter film and realise that I am expected to be gripped by terror, watching that magnificent blue troll before me. It looks, […]
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As culture and society have evolved within the west, so too have attitudes towards the LGBTQ+ community. In response, media depictions of Queer people and Queer stories have become increasingly prominent. While my natural inclination is to endorse this, I feel we must be cautious that representation does not become erasure. As a historian, perhaps […]
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I was curious to see what Simon Bird (of Inbetweeners fame) would make of his directorial debut. I expected a comedy, but perhaps not one as touching as this. Set in an “everytown” somewhere in the Midlands, the film’s plot is simple. Daniel lives with his divorced mother in an English suburb and can’t wait […]
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From Dracula (1958) to The Devil Rides Out (1968), in their 82 year history, Hammer Films Productions have produced some of the most iconic British horror films released in the 20th century. The Man Who Could Cheat Death isn’t one of those films. One of the lesser known entries of the production company’s output, it’s […]
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Located in the quiet space of Magdalen College Old Library, the Lawrence of Oxford exhibition offers a profound insight into the persona of T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia. The exhibition features some of the material assembled over fifty years by Jeremy Wilson and recently acquired by Magdalen College. It is chiefly an […]
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It’s almost Christmas, and you all know what that means. Time to grab a blanket, make some hot chocolate, and pull out the old A Charlie Brown Christmas DVD. That’s right folks- it’s holiday film season! But what really defines a ‘Christmas movie’? Is it simply the time of year, or does the genre go […]
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Image Credit: Google Cultural Institute/Smithsonian Design Museum Two years, two films, one character? While 2017’s Goodbye Christopher Robin and this year’s Christopher Robin both feature the titular character, the portrayals are so different that they may as well be entirely separate. Of course, this is partially explained by the focus of the films themselves, with […]
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Image Credit: Flickr – Brickset (CC BY 2.0) After fourteen years, and an intervening thirteen films, including two Toy Story, two Cars, one Finding Nemo and one Monsters Inc. sequel[s], comes perhaps the mostly highly anticipated movie of the year (move over Infinity War!). After this much time, is a sequel to The Incredibles still […]
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Image Credit: aitoff (CC0) With the runaway success of the original Paddington, it was always a matter of time before a sequel would hit the screens. And it duly did, taking StudioCanal’s biggest opening weekend box office in the UK. With many successful films, the desire to create a quick cash-in on the original’s popularity […]
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Scrap the popcorn and the all-American horror flicks, get ready to squirm to horror done the Asian way. Horror movies and I have always had a love-hate relationship. From a young age I loved thrillers and all things gothic, but come Halloween it seemed impossible for me to make that last jump (scare) into the […]
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Sheltering from the midday sun, I was grateful for the shade provided by the Phoenix Picturehouse’s second screen. I sank down into the seat and felt my shirt cling to the upholstery. Two became one, as I did my best Comic Book Guy impression, minus oversized beverage and ponytail. Collecting my thoughts before the Oxford […]
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