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‘You don’t have to be unlucky to die out there’ If you often watch movies then you will know that there are certain topics that keep popping up. Films about secret agents, love or baddies […]
Dusk on the Mall. A large pop-up cinema on the Duke of York Steps to the west of the ICA. A perfect, natural cinema location. Although by natural I mean man-made of course. I arrived […]
The slasher film has been a hearty lynchpin of horror over the years but also the victim of its own undoing following the mid-nineties. Its pop cultural dissection in the Scream trilogy and the royal […]
Bonnie Prince Charlie and Casanova are more usual 18th century subjects for drama than Adam Smith. A swash here, a buckle there, BPC and Casanova provide kilts and razzamatazz – but when it comes to intellectual rigour […]