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Women directors screened out

Christopher Silvester on Mark Cousins’s latest documentary

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Gordon’s (Still) Alive: Flash Gordon at 40

Remembering the cult-classic science-fiction romp

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How Hollywood managed to celebrate German culture in 1954

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s musical coming out just nine years after the end of World War II invited Germany back into polite society

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Is this the end of cinemagoing as we know it?

Will compulsory face-masks, social-distancing and an air of paranoia drive audiences to online streaming once and for all?

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How has James Bond evolved?

And is it for better or for worse? With author and historian, Professor Jeremy Black

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The geek shall inherit the earth

How a studio was bullied into releasing the first cut of an unsuccessful film

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Why does The Shining still scare us?

A large part of its appeal revolves around a simple fact, it is utterly terrifying

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Can Christopher Nolan save the cinema-going experience?

It is not just Nolan’s reputation that is on the line if Tenet is released in July

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Reel hell of the Western Front

The director wanted to show things as they were – badly-led, no one wanting to fight or knowing what they were fighting for, says Christopher Silvester

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Untrue story of the Kelly Gang

For a folk hero this Ned has zero contact with the ordinary Irish folk who will supposedly come to love him, says Christopher Silvester

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