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CinemaOn "Birdman" or (The People Who Burn, Burn, Burn)On the meteoric ascent and inevitable crash-and-burn of the tragic hero, from Achilles through Nietzsche to Birdman. "The only people for...
CinemaCategorically Great: Bad, good, and great fiction and filmSome books and movies make us think, others make us feel – a smaller selection of the truly brilliant do both. So what separates a good...
Cinema"Lost" to "WandaVision": The joys of weekly watchingWe might be at a decisive moment in the history of how we watch our favourite shows. Will the relatively new binge-watching model win...
