Movie Review
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Health & Medicine
What disaster movies can teach us about coping with COVID-19
Cinema may have a lesson or two to teach us about how society can work together and collectively overcome shared threats like a pandemic
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Arts & Culture
Bringing ancient Rome to life
Filmmakers just love the vivid drama of Ancient Rome. But which screen visions of the ancient superpower do our history experts rate the best?
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Arts & Culture
No laughing matter: The Death of Stalin and Putin’s anxieties
Russia’s ban on the movie reveals how much the Kremlin fears losing its grip on power
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Arts & Culture
Black Panther: How global civil rights found a home in a superhero movie
The latest Marvel movie adaption, Black Panther, arrives in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement with its own take on global Civil Rights - with a pan-African twist
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Arts & Culture
Blade Runner 2049: Identity, humanity and discrimination
Blade Runner 2049, like the original, is about what it means to be human. But the ethical implications of cloning could prophesize an ethically fraught future
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Sciences & Technology
The Aliens among us
If you are scared witless by the Alien movies then read no further, these six animals are just as creepy and they’re here on Earth
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Arts & Culture
Alien life as we know it
The discovery of life on another planet is becoming more likely - so the movie Life isn’t purely fiction
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Arts & Culture
Suicide Squad is far from painless
Finally, we have some evidence that DC’s superhero juggernaut is changing course, but it’s moving very slowly
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Arts & Culture
Seven Shakespeare movies you cannot miss
The Bard’s plays have been turned into hundreds of films – but these seven stand out because they entertain and deepen our understanding of his work
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Arts & Culture
Captain America is a Marvel to behold
Were Disney and Marvel to go head to head with superhero rivals Warner Brothers and DC, the former would win hands-down