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

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