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The Dreamworld Aesthetic of 8½

by Christina Newland

Through its visionary cinematography and costume design, Federico Fellini’s 1963 film masterfully blurs the lines between memory, reality and fantasy.

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Review

How To Train Your Dragon review – never quite catches the updraft needed to soar to uncharted heights

by Yasmine Kandil

Dreamworks’ first foray into the world of live-action remakes is fairly unremarkable despite occasional sparks of magic.

This Must Be the Place: A Queer East Correspondence

by Qinghan Chen, Lydia Leung

In collaboration with the Queer East Film Festival, this year’s Emerging Critics cohort offer their responses to the film programme.

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Review

Lollipop review – a gut-punching debut

by Emily Maskell

Daisy-May Hudson’s impressive fiction debut lays bare the bureaucratic cycles a young woman has to face as she attempts to regain custody of her children.

Tornado review – tries a bit too hard to be different

by David Jenkins

John Maclean aims for Sergio Leone and Akira Kurosawa, but this 18^th century samurai western leaves only a superficial impression.

Introducing… La Dolce Vita: A Celebration of Italian Screen Style

by Little White Lies

This summer we’re inviting you to indulge in a slice of the sweet life with Disaronno.

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Podcast

Dangerous Animals | Ballerina | Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Dangerous Animals and Ballerina, we speak to activist, photographer and filmmaker Misan Harriman about Shoot The People, a documentary about his work. David speaks to Steven Leckart — the director of Stans, about the fervent fandom of Eminem, and finally, for film club we revisit a video nasty with one hell of a shark scene in Zombie Flesh Eaters.