Movies
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Hot Milk review – never properly gels
Rebecca Lenkiewicz adapts Deborah Levy’s best-selling novel, but the result is lacklustre. This icy psychodrama of deep familial discord plays…
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GriefTech: Death and Technology in The Shrouds,…
This trend can also be traced in recent television series. In Apple TV+’s Severance, biocorp giant Lumon manufactures brain chips that…
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Severed, Reprinted, Impersonated: The Rise of Cinema’s ‘Work Double’
A spate of recent works are pondering the concept of replicating or separating oneself in response to our increasingly economically…
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The Shrouds review – precision filmmaking of the…
It’s become a cliché to say that David Cronenberg’s The Fly remains one of the most heartbreaking films of the 1980s,…
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Jurassic Park and the story of the modern…
One sub-strand of popular criticism that interests me greatly is when someone claims to have “a theory” about a movie. It’s…
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Jurassic World | Little White Lies
There is exactly one brilliant moment in Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World: a teenage boy named Zach (Nick Robinson) strolls through the…
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | Little White Lies
Something has gone very wrong in the lab. Twenty-five years ago, Steven Spielberg birthed the modern blockbuster as we know it with his awe-inspiring adaptation…
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Jurassic Lark: The satirical genius of Jim Henson’s Dinosaurs
Animatronic puppets, searing social commentary, this short-lived early ’90s sitcom had it all. Reptilian newsreader Howard Handupme looks to camera:…
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Discover this gross-out ’90s high school movie by…
“All you need is mobility and life beyond this boring room and the limitations of this stupid computer. I, my…
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Jurassic World: Dominion | Little White Lies
But that’s not all! Very bad people have trained the raptors to attack people when a laser pointer in aimed at…
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