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WATCH: Something Special #112 – What to watch in November?

Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don't want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read / see / taste / place. It will be something...

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...

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