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“A thoroughly absorbing three-and-a-half-hour epic”: Game of Thrones: The Mad King review

Waiting with my daughter in the post-industrial foyer of Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon, for Game of Thrones: The Mad King to start I contemplated my own relationship to fandom and our want for every narrative detail to be resolved...

Star power: the golden age of charisma – Late to the Movies

Over the past few months, we've watched a series of revolutions in cinema history. We've seen Italian Neorealism strip away studio artifice in pursuit of authenticity, explored how Method acting transformed screen performance, and watched the 1950s...

Films I’d Never Seen #6: Tuner

If you haven’t seen Daniel Roher’s film Tuner, then you need to remedy that quickly. Leo Woodall is Niki White a former New York musical prodigy turned piano tuner who suffers from hyperacusis. Niki must always wear ear protection as loud noises...

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