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Cinema’s Resurrection?

Ellie Siora on how innovative screenings must challenge ‘passive’ binge-watch culture, after attending an all-night Wes Anderson marathon

Review: Love and Friendship – both modernised and faithful

Stillman’s adaptation successfully captures Austin and puts others to shame, writes Zach Leather

I, Daniel Blake: a working class triumph

Jem Bartholomew hopes Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or win can revolutionise our national welfare debate

Review: OBA Film Festival showcase

James Riding casts an eye over the most ambitious films in Oxford student filmmaking at the OBA’s annual screening

Web Series World – The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

Let's start at the very beginning...

The Age of Photoshop?

Daniel Curtis laments the decline of the quality film poster, but sees many reasons to be optimistic for the future

Linking Linklater’s Latest

Jake Kennedy identifies time as the common thread in Richard Linklater’s work

Representing The Impossible

Cinema will never be able to represent the horrors of the Holocaust, but Son of Saul offers a sensitive try, writes Jem Bartholomew

Review: the OBA Easter Projects

Louise Howland dissects Sunday’s OBA student film screening, praising their indie feminist zeal

Oliver’s Twist: Ru Paul’s Drag Race

Oli is back and getting into drag racing

Review: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 – like microwave moussaka

Comedies based on stereotypes are ripe for criticism, but Miriam Nemmaoui managed to see beyond this, finding her own family represented in the Portokalos’

Review: Hush – a cat and mouse fight to the death

Hush negotiates the established conventions of the home-invasion horror concerning female victimhood, writes Louise Howland

Review: Miles Ahead – this is no hagiography

Miles Ahead successfully connects the deeply flawed private man with his public persona, the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century, writes Altair Brandon-Salmon

Review: Eddie the Eagle – ‘he’s a laughing stock’

Eddie the Eagle is the same bland, fabricated underdog cliché we’ve seen time and again, writes Tom Barringer

Shashi Tharoor, UN diplomat, novelist, politician, and historian, speaks...

Three Thousand reasons to slurp

When you want to play sports but you’re lowkey...

Growth, but at what cost?

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