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Getting away with it: three films that pushed the boundaries of the Production Code – Late to the Movies

We've encountered Hollywood's Motion Picture Production Code in previous articles, not least when considering the increasingly overt sexuality of Cleopatra (1963), made towards the end of its life. For more than three decades, the Code governed what...

“Pattinson’s Hansen is an evangelical shyster, desperately trying to convince himself of his own moral righteousness”: Primetime review

Robert Pattinson has always had something dark and off kilter skulking behind his matinee idol looks. His teeth are vaguely reptilian, sharpened discreetly to resemble Willem Dafoe, fashioned to rupture throats in a Victorian back alley past...

Women, science, and why The Love Hypothesis is the hit Rom-Com of the year

These are times of chaos, these are times of change, but they are definitely times for readers — and now it’s The Love Hypothesis’s turn. When I read this book by Ali Hazelwood a few years ago, it wasn’t that popular to adapt romantic...

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