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Columbo | Playback (Season 4, Ep. 5)

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

Published: 25 March 2023
25 March 2023

Minority Report (2002) and the paradox of precognition

Symbols of seeing and not seeing – and the unbearable weight of grief – in sci-fi thriller Minority Report

Published: 21 March 2023
21 March 2023

Soul, man: borrowed Blackness in The Commitments

It don’t matter if you’re Black or white … or does it? Talking about race in The Commitments

Published: 15 March 2023
15 March 2023

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

Making sense of the sizzling sexuality of Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Published: 5 March 2023
5 March 2023

God’s Creatures: comfort and claustrophobia | Review

Lies come easy in God’s Creatures. Consequences fall harder

Published: 3 March 2023
3 March 2023

As Bestas (The Beasts): beneath our human skin | Review

Taut, true-life tale The Beasts shatters the myth of rural idylls and easy living

Published: 27 February 2023
27 February 2023