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In certain instances of kidnapping, robbery or terrorism, hostages have been known to develop compassionate, cooperative relationships with their captors. Known as Stockholm syndrome, this psychological phenomenon of irrational alliance… Read More
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Mel Gibson and Sean Penn attempt to out-weird – and out-beard – each other, in the bizarrely captivating story of the creation of the first Oxford English Dictionary. Download the… Read More
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When the time-travelling shenanigans of 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past inadvertently erased the events of 2006’s much-maligned X-Men: The Last Stand, 20th Century Fox’s Marvel-adjacent franchise was gifted the… Read More
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The mighty atomic kaiju returns in the 35th official Toho movie, and the third instalment in Legendary’s MonsterVerse, after 2014’s Godzilla and 2017’s Kong: Skull Island. This time out, Gojira… Read More
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Allison Williams and Logan Browning play rival cellists in a delightfully bonkers horror film that takes audiences on a bonkers, twisty-turny ride that defies your wildest expectations. Watch The Perfection… Read More
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Will Smith fills the mighty big shoes…or lamp…vacated by Robin Williams, in Disney’s latest live-action remake of a revered animated classic. Guy Ritchie directs, and amazingly, it all works far… Read More
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What if Superman was evil? That’s the high-concept pitch of Brightburn, a super-villain origin story produced by Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, and written by his brothers Brian… Read More
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Ryan Reynolds channels a family-friendly Deadpool performance into the voice of Pikachu, Pokémon’s iconic yellow fuzzball, a hotshot sleuth with crippling amnesia, who teams up with the son of his… Read More
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Following recent gender-flipped remakes Ghostbusters and Ocean’s 8 , Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson look to put a feminist spin on the 1988 hit comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, as a… Read More
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Eleven years after Iron Man was introduced to unsuspecting summer crowds, Marvel Studios wraps up their unprecedented 22 film “Infinity Saga” with a rousing victory lap that bursts with emotional… Read More
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With the release of Avengers: Endgame this week, summer season has arrived in earnest. From now until the end of August, cinemas will be packed with the biggest, most audacious… Read More
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After just five films, James Wan’s The Conjuring series has become the second highest-grossing horror franchise in cinema history, with only Godzilla earning more. The producer now brings Latin American… Read More
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Pretty young things Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse die gracefully of cystic fibrosis. Download the podcast Read More
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Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart star in this American remake of the French blockbuster hit, The Intouchables. Pretty much everything else stays the same. Download the podcast Read More
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Jacques Audiard’s first English language film is a gorgeous, darkly comic western, in which Joaquin Phoenix and a never better John C. Reilly star as fraternal assassins in search of… Read More
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Tim Burton reunites with Danny DeVito and Michael Keaton for a bold, live action reimagining of the animated classic, which also stars Colin Farrell, Eva Green and Nico Parker. Download… Read More
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Wide-ranging and thoroughly engaging documentary about Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her incredible life and career. Download the podcast Read More
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Following the Oscar winning success of Get Out, Jordan Peele returns with a terrifying horror film, bursting with social commentary. Download the podcast Read More
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