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Women in a Wasteland – George Miller’s ‘Mad Max’
Anthony Laurence on the Mad Max franchise, whose gasoline-soaked masculinity gives way to Furiosa and the women of Fury Road's wasteland.
/ Anthony Laurence
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Dear College Kids, Would You Listen to Samantha White?
Aryanna Prasad watches Dear White People as a biracial student and asks whether Justin Simien's satire can make America talk honestly about racism.
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Vince Gilligan’s ‘Breaking Bad’ – is it the greatest television show of all time?
Anthony Laurence weighs Breaking Bad against television's best and asks whether Vince Gilligan's meth-lab tragedy is the greatest show ever made.
/ Anthony Laurence
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Cinema’s declining Middle Class: Why have studios stopped taking risks?
Matt Spencer-Skeen argues Hollywood now funds only tent-pole franchises and Oscar bait, abandoning the mid-budget films where risk once thrived.
/ Matt Spencer-Skeen
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The Contextualisation Of Fiction
Matt Spencer-Skeen asks why Hollywood villains built from the West's real fears have become as beloved as the heroes who defeat them.
/ Matt Spencer-Skeen
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Blink And You’ll Miss It – 6 Films You May Have Missed In 2013
Anthony Laurence revisits six films of 2013 that slipped past the box office and the Academy, from Park Chan-wook's Stoker onward, all worth your time.
/ Anthony Laurence
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Celebritism and Cronenberg’s ‘Antiviral’
Following in the footsteps of your father is never a meningeal task, especially when your father is acclaimed filmmaker David Cronenberg.
/ Anthony Laurence
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CGI – A Case of Less or More?
From Melies's 1902 moon voyage to CGI-saturated blockbusters, Anthony Laurence asks when cinema's special effects stopped being special.
/ Anthony Laurence
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The Importance of Diversity in Cinema
Anthony Laurence on cinema's representation problem and why film must offer heroes and role models who are not, by default, white men.
/ Anthony Laurence
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Jeff Nichols’ MUD & Idea Recycling
Anthony Laurence admires Jeff Nichols' Mud, then traces its debt to Dickens' Great Expectations and asks when homage becomes idea recycling.
/ Anthony Laurence
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Reviewing The Most Recent Spike Jonze Masterpiece
Hassan Que reviews Spike Jonze's Her, where Joaquin Phoenix's Theodore falls for an operating system in a luminous near-future Los Angeles.
/ Hassan Que
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The Decline of Richard Pryor: Uncensored
In 1986 Richard Pryor appeared on The Barbara Walters Specialas a different kind of character, his lissome features, slender, fractured and unseemly.
/ Hassan Que
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The Tale of Dexter Morgan
Anthony Laurence looks back on Dexter at the end of its eight-season run, asking how television's blood-spattered antihero lost his way.
/ Anthony Laurence