Culture
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Slapgate wasn’t a one-off – the Oscars have always been mired in scandal
They are not fair, they never have been and they never will be. The biggest misconception about the Academy Awards –…
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Is Iron Man the most culturally significant Marvel film ever made?
Robert Downey Jr is arrested. Again. He’s in rehab; he’s in court; he’s in prison; he has violated probation. In…
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Badlands at 50: Why it’s still a killer film
It’s the dying fish that sticks in the mind. You don’t see one in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) or any…
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From Tarantino to Kubrick: Why Hollywood has always been fascinated by violence
We’ve all experienced it at the cinema – the “Surely they’re not going to do that” moment, when the violence…
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Shelley Duvall took an axe to her own career – now she’s making a comeback
Few can forget the sheer terror on Shelley Duvall’s face when mad, bad Jack Nicholson comes after her in Stanley…
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Kurt Russell is the everyman of Hollywood – why don’t we appreciate him more?
“Hey kid, how would you like to kick me in the shin?” Elvis Presley asks a random, freckled boy in…
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Barbarella: Why on earth do we want a remake?
When Jane Fonda was preparing for the galactic striptease that opens the 1968 sci-fi fantasy Barbarella, she plied herself with vodka. She was so…
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Jean-Luc Godard: The New Wave director who always put cinema first
In his latter years, Jean-Luc Godard became more and more like the Prospero of world cinema. The director – who…
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The Week on Stage: From I, Joan to Horse Play
Edinburgh Fringe is over for another year, which means the London theatre scene is coming back to life again after…
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The Fabelmans looks set to be Spielberg’s most personal film – after ET, that is
A boy is subjected to horrific antisemitic abuse at his new school. Kids throw coins on the floor as he…
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