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Film

Inception (2010) explained: not a heist but an intervention

23 July 201713 March 2022

The question isn’t whether Cobb is still dreaming at the end of Inception, but who is dreaming Cobb

Film

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

30 April 20178 May 2022

How Knowing subverts its genres … and mirrors 2002’s Signs

Film

Die Hard 2 (1990): why does John McClane smoke?

28 March 20173 April 2022

Die Hard 2 depends on John McClane being a smoker

Literature

Whose line is it anyway? Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat explained

30 August 201611 April 2022

The Driver’s Seat and the ‘second narrative’ theory

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