17 Blocks: review
Premiering at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where it picked up the Award for Best Editing in a Documentary Feature Film, Davy Rothbart’s 17 Blocks is a compelling, two-decades-long look at...
Must reads: being 72, mourning, d/Deafness, Emmett Till, stolen baby
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Social media highlights of the week
We all spend much of our time buried in our phones, keeping up with what social media has to offer. But the good stuff can get lost in the mix. So we wanted to share with you some of the better posts...
The 39 migrant deaths are our fault
Earlier this week, the horrific find of 39 dead bodies in a lorry trailer in Purfleet in Essex shocked the world. The 31 men and eight women were Chinese nationals, one a teenager, and the process of...
Joker film: worth the hype but ultimately falls short
With ticket prices and streaming being what they are these days, long gone are the times when I would drop into the theaters just to see something—anything—out of sheer curiosity. Movies have...
El camino: the opening of television to cinema
A nostalgic generation was eagerly awaiting the premiere of Netflix's El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. It's only been six years since the last season of the acclaimed series ended, but fans missed...
Paul Gascoigne trial highlights why most women don’t report sexual abuse or rape
By Nicole Westmarland, Durham University As he strode confidently into Teesside Crown Court wearing a suit and sunglasses, former England footballer, Paul Gascoigne, smiled at the assembled media to...
Must reads: Disney, assault, medical debt, vanishing foods, #MeToo
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Social media highlights of the week
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What Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal really means
Boris Johnson has got a Brexit deal! After weeks of frantic speculation about whether or not we would crash out of Europe on the 31st October without a deal, this has been a somewhat unexpected...