Author: Sinead McCausland
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This Is About Obsession: The New ‘I Love Dick’ Trailer is Here
Kathryn Hahn finally has a leading role in Jill Soloway’s new Amazon series, but will the intimacy of the novel translate to the screen? In voiceover,…
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Meet Walter Presents, The Streaming Service that Specializes in Foreign Drama
The UK Channel 4 streaming service has finally arrived in the US. In January 2016, British television had undergone the beginning of a small (but important)…
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Let’s Go to Green Gables with the New Trailer for Netflix’s ‘Anne’
It’s a feminist re-imagining in Netflix’s latest series. Last Tuesday, Netflix released the first full-length trailer for their new series, Anne. Working with Canadian network CBC,…
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Movie Posters In the Age of the Internet
With the release of new ‘Free Fire’ and ‘Baby Driver’ posters, we ask: what role does a movie’s poster play in the digital age?Character posters for…
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When Meaningful Cinema Is Entertaining
‘Wild Tales’ and ‘Get Out’ prove entertainment and depth are not mutually exclusive. “I am altogether opposed to popular entertainment,” says Jean Cocteau, “because I…
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The Beauty of Jean Cocteau’s ‘La Belle et la Bête’
The self-titled Belle and her captor-turned-prince Beast have returned to cinema screens around the world. In Disney’s latest live-action reiteration of one of their much-loved…
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The Nature of Robots
How the robots of ‘Metropolis’ and ‘Ex Machina’ chart our changing perspectives towards artificial intelligence.Ex Machina (dir. Alex Garland, 2015).The title of Alex Garland’s 2015 thoughtful…
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The Lasting Humanity of ‘Two Days, One Night’
On the Dardenne brothers’ exploration of normalcy.Marion Cotillard in ‘Two Days, One Night’Jean-Pierre Dardenne and his younger brother Luc, commonly referred to as the Dardenne brothers,…
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The Many Homes of Hayao Miyazaki
Miyazaki’s films show his audience that the home is not a fixed, single place. The home has no one single meaning. The Oxford English Dictionary traces…