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What on Earth is The Show About the Show?

by Daniel Glassman

Caveh Zahedi counts Greta Gerwig and the Safdie Brothers among his admirers – but where do you begin with a beast as strange and sprawling as his all-consuming magnum opus?
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Heightened Drama: Inside the operatic adaptation of Festen

by Blake Simons

Thomas Vinterberg's 1998 drama finds its way to the Royal Opera House courtesy of an elaborate new reimagining – but how on earth do you adapt a Dogme 95 film into an opera?
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How Mouthwashing continues Alien’s condemnation of worker exploitation

by Alex Masse

Taking cues from Ridley Scott's juggernaut, Mouthwashing is a fascinating game about worker exploitation and the violence of the patriarchy.
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Has WWE become another cog in the Netflix machine?

by Sam Moore

As WWE enters its Netflix Era, there's an awful lot of "brand synergy" – and it's becoming a distraction.
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Long Read

This city is our playground: A drive-by of Grand Theft Auto machinima

by Olivia Popp

Grand Theft Hamlet might be the highest profile film made inside Rockstar's flagship franchise, but it's certainly not the first – join us on a cruise through San Andreas Cinema.
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When did theatre become so reliant on film?

by Holly Williams

With screen-to-stage adaptations popping up in the West End every week, what's caused the theatre world to rely so heavily on cinema for source material?
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Deciphering Don Hertzfeldt’s ME

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The latest short film from the independent animation legend is an elusive oddity even by Don Hertzfeldt's standards.
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The unending labour of Amos Gitaï’s House

by Daniel Glassman

Following a short run at Barbican Centre, Amos Gitaï's landmark film series turned theatre production charts the history of a single house in West Jerusalem and what it reveals about Israel and Palestine.
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Because The Internet: the cursed, perverse realities of Adult Swim infomercials

by Sam Moore

On the late night programming block of an American television channel a series of bleak parody shorts riff on the relationship between the internet and spectatorship.
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Scott Pilgrim Takes Off – leaving behind an unexpected reinvention

by Kambole Campbell

The titular character goes his own way in a new anime that builds on the existing Scott Pilgrim canon, giving the supporting cast a chance to step up.
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The Curse is Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s unsettling suburban house of mirrors

by Charles Bramesco

Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone star as an unscrupulous property developing couple who find themselves cursed by a small child in this A24 and Showtime collaboration.
A laptop screen showing the official trailer for Iron Man 4, featuring a man in a suit standing in front of technological equipment.
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Inside the strange, enthusiastic world of YouTube’s fake trailer community

by Kyle MacNeill

For the last decade, a small group of video editors have spent hours toiling over concept trailers, delighting and duping fans eager to catch a sneak peek of an upcoming film.

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