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Columbo | Playback (Season 4, Ep. 5)

25 March 2023

Go go gadget! Columbo inspects when a murder is caught on tape – but playback proves all is not as it seems

A man in a blindfold in a blue, watery environment

Minority Report (2002) and the paradox of precognition

21 March 2023

Soul, man: borrowed Blackness in The Commitments

15 March 2023

Sex and sanguination: decoding Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

5 March 2023

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Film

Films to read before you die: the zine

Film

Joker (2019): a fine line between good and evil

Film

Se7en (1995) explained: how to create hell on Earth

Film

I Came By (2022) explained: a question of class

Film

Knowing (2009) explained: sci-fi, sin and damnation

Book reviews

The Courage To Be Disliked, by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga

Book reviews

The Man Who Fell to Earth, by Walter Tevis

Film

Infernal Affairs (2002) explained: the perils of identity

Book reviews

The Fear Bubble, by Ant Middleton

Literature

Sayaka Murata’s Earthlings and the colour of survival

Film

Child 44 explained: no murder in paradise?

Book reviews

How to Own the Room, by Viv Groskop

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