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How the Scream franchise's mask slipped

by Patrick Sproull

Between the firing of Melissa Barrera for supporting Palestine and a staunch refusal to innovate, the once-beloved horror series has reached new lows.
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What Wasteman shows us about the reality of prisons and the potential for abolition

by Molly Lipson

Cal McMau’s visceral feature debut, set in a men’s prison, provides a useful lens for considering how pop culture informs our understanding of policing and justice.
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How representation of sexual assault is changing on screen

by Billie Walker

Two decades on from the beginning of the MeToo movement, more and more filmmakers are choosing to explore the lasting impact of sexual violence rather than restage traumatic events.
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Death with Dignity: the documentaries de-stigmatising end-of-life care

by Miriam Balanescu

André is an Idiot is the latest in a line of refreshing films that tackle the taboo of death head-on.
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How gaming YouTuber Markiplier became an overnight box-office sensation

by Blake Simons

Iron Lung has unexpectedly turned the box office upside down – what led a YouTube legend to take on Hollywood with his horror feature debut?
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Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia, and the Long Shadow of Stanley Kubrick

by Marshall Shaffer

Kubrickian echoes reverberate throughout the Greek filmmaker’s oeuvre. With Bugonia, those connections are shaped into a singular package that transcends the sum of its homages.
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GriefTech: Death and Technology in The Shrouds, Invention, and Severance

by Jadie Stillwell

Recent sci-fi works in film and television alike are articulating new relationships between contemporary technologies and grief.
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Severed, Reprinted, Impersonated: The Rise of Cinema’s ‘Work Double’

by Gayle Sequeira

A spate of recent works are pondering the concept of replicating or separating oneself in response to our increasingly economically perilous world.
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Are movies still short-changing middle-aged women?

by Miriam Balanescu

Despite the wealth of roles showcasing women over 40 this past year, some troubling stereotypes remain the same.
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I’m an Iranian woman. Can I still enjoy Iranian films?

by Shaadi 'Iris' Ghorbani

A tendency in male-directed Iranian cinema to focus on violence against women leaves female audiences out in the cold.
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The Crip Cinema Archive wants to change the way we think about disability in film

by Hannah Strong

Founded by Emily Simmons, this new project aims to provide an inclusive resource about the past, present and future of disability on and off screen.
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How fanfiction took over the film world

by Rehana Nurmahi

With the lead character of The Idea of You bearing a striking resemblance to Harry Styles, we take a look at the relatively recent history of Wattpad and fanfiction-based films taking over the box office.

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