All that this LGBT+ superhero novel has to its name, unfortunately, are dreadfully shallow characters in a paper-thin universe.
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Provocation, Subversion, and Class: A Look At The Young British Artists
Britain’s best-known generation of contemporary artists are still cherished as highly relevant in today’s art world – but are they still considered the enfants terrible of fine art?
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‘Siblings’ world premiere: A tale of Mexico and America from below
Siblings is a film of two halves, two stories which play out on different sides of the Mexican-American border. It is about love and abandonment, illegal immigration and populism, and three real people whose voices we seldom hear in the age of Trump and his ‘beautiful wall’.
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Women in American College Radio
In the student centre of an idyllic Western Massachusetts college – up the ground floor staircase, past the inciting smell of half-baked cookies and ethically sourced coffee – you will find a dingy two room studio tucked away from the now distant hum of students. A quick swipe of a student ID and you are…
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Riverblue: Exposing the fashion industry’s dirty laundry
“How clean are your clothes?” probes the tagline for Riverblue, a powerful film that shows the high cost of low cost clothing.
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Artist Viktoria Binschtok and capitalism’s need for unemployment
The debate over whether art should be political is one which has dominated discussions amongst those who dwell in the world of creative expression. It is ongoing and arguably, gathering momentum.
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The Battle of the Formats: The Golden Ratio
Aspect ratios are the window through which we view movies. Whether you’re watching on your iPhone or the BFI IMAX, the filmmaker has decided how much footage they want you to see at any one time. But exactly how much footage is the right amount of footage?
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Dunkirk and the Art of War: Christopher Nolan’s Oppressive Aesthetic
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk has won universal critical acclaim for its attempt to authentically reproduce the evacuation of soldiers from Dunkirk. Nolan’s movie has been hailed as the artistic zenith of the war film; a masterclass in temporal and spatial elasticity, weaving together a triplet of narratives told across one week, one day, and one hour,…
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Reconciling Islam and Feminism
Trigger warning: heavy mentions of rape, as well as mentions of abuse and murder. My first experience with feminism was when I was fifteen, and one of my teachers gave a brief outline of what it meant and what it stood for. I didn’t really care for it much back then – the fact that…
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The Battle of the Formats: LieMAX
Formats, for better or worse, define the cinematic experience: how big is the screen? What’s the aspect ratio? Digital or projection? What’s the seating arrangement? With The Battle of the Formats, I’m gonna be addressing a number of different topics around the physical presentation of films to help you inform how to have the ultimate…
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