FT, Trip by Amie Barrodale review
Empire, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You review
The Guardian, Why Calamity Jane is my feelgood movie
Irish Times, May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry review
Little White Lies, Death with Dignity: the documentaries de-stigmatising end-of-life care
AnOther, Richard Linklater on Nouvelle Vague
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Spectator, Blinding by Mircea Cartarescu review
BFI, 10 great filmmaker biopics
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BBC Culture, Hero or brutal tyrant? The controversy over 16th-Century explorer Magellan
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Financial Times, The Pelican Child by Joy Williams review
The Londoner, London’s cat cafes are big business. So why do things seem less than purrfect?
The Londoner, Nudists, satanists and fake cat poo: Inside London’s underground cinema scene
Time Magazine, Lynne Ramsay interview – The Meaning Behind the Incendiary Ending of Die My Love
AnOther, Samantha Morton on Anemone, and Cinema’s Betrayal of the #MeToo Movement
Prospect Magazine, Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett
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Observer, The Expansion Project by Ben Pester review
Curzon, Horror movies insist orphans are evil – Bring Her Back disagrees
FT, Groundwater by Thomas McMullan review
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Irish Times, Idle Grounds by Krystelle Bamford review
BFI, 10 great British pastoral films
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Wallpaper, David Cronenberg’s ‘The Shrouds’ is the film for our post-truth digital age
FT, Rebecca Lenkiewicz on ‘Hot Milk’, queer love and making the leap from writing to directing
IGN, Patience review
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The Observer, On the Clock by Claire Baglin review
Roger Ebert, How “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” Subverts the “Save the Girl” Trope
Men’s Health Mag, The Ultimate ‘Sad Man in Space’ Movie Ranking
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A Rabbit’s Foot, The cinematic visions of William S. Burroughs
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i Paper, Set My Heart on Fire review
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A Rabbit’s Foot, Are we living in the age of single parent cinema?
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AnOther, Green Border Is an Urgent Wake-up Call on Europe’s Refugee Crisis
Dazed, The lesbian renaissance is nigh
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The New Statesman, The films changing how we understand the Holocaust
Curzon Journal, How Hoard grapples with the grossness of girlhood
The Observer, The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya review
Sight and Sound, The Trouble with Jessica review
AnOther, Love Lies Bleeding: How Rose Glass Created the Sexiest Film of the Year
The Daily Beast, ‘Mary & George’ May Just Be the Sexiest Period Piece Ever
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AnOther, Five Essential Queer Road Movies to Add to Your Watchlist
BFI, Where to begin with Radu Jude
Material Queer, All of Us Strangers Review
BBC Culture, Back to Black: Why the controversial Amy Winehouse biopic is angering fans
Inverse, Oppenheimer Proved We Prefer Biopics About Bad People
AnOther, Eileen: How Ottessa Moshfegh’s Disturbing Novel Made It to the Big Screen
Girls on Tops, Kitty Green’s unpredictable masculinities
Time Out, The 22 best restaurants in Cambridge right now
i-D, Queer women are still overlooked in rom-coms
AnOther, How Franz Rogowski Became the Year’s Most Lovable Onscreen Narcissist
Time Out, The 21 best things to do in Cambridge right now
Irish Independent, This moment at the end of the Barbie movie is a glorious ode to embracing our imperfections
The Observer, Open Throat by Henry Hoke review
The Observer, Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein review
i-D, A short history of the queer western
The Guardian, Gut reaction: Cinema’s new wave of projectile vomiting
AnOther, Sick of Myself, Kristoffer Borgli’s scathing takedown of modern narcissism
Huck, Why struggling dads are dominating awards season
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AnOther, Bodies, Bodies Bodies: the making of Halina Reijn’s searing satire of Gen-Z
The Irish Times, Review of Milk Teeth by Jessica Andrews
Little White Lies, How female sex workers are reclaiming their onscreen image
The Observer, Review of Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
The i Paper, Review of Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
The Observer, Review of Toto Among the Murderers by Sally J Morgan
The Economist, Film-makers are finding horror, not comfort, in the natural world
AnOther, Bad Luck Banging, the Riotous Berlinale-Winning Film About Amateur Porn
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The Irish Times, The Union of Synchronised Swimmers by Cristina Sandu, review
The Quietus, Rewilding: How First Cow, Minari and Nomadland Reimagine The Western
Literary Review, Review of Animal by Lisa Taddeo
Prospect Magazine, Mircea Cartarescu – A Romanian master’s fantastical visions
Literary Review, Review of The Coming Bad Days by Sarah Bernstein
The Calvert Journal, Radu Jude: where to start with his films
The Bookseller, Libraries are lifelines
The Independent, How bad sex became a staple of feminist drama
Wales Arts Review, Books Go Back to the 70s
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The i Paper, Bluebeard’s First Wife by Ha Seong-nan, review
The Independent, From 13 Reasons Why to Killing Eve – Why TV adaptations should stop going beyond the book
The Guardian, ‘A coldness that masks a burning inner rage’: South Korea’s female writers rise up
The New Statesman, How Julian Fellowes lost his magic touch
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The Guardian, The unstoppable rise of nosebleeds in cinema
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Stylist, Why you should read a book before bedtime if you’re feeling stressed
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