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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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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 ani­mé 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.
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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.