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Churchill at War: Not my anti-fascist hero!
December 13, 2024I’ll stick with my own anti-fascist heroes, starting with the veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
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‘El Conde’: Count Pinochet the Vampire!
September 28, 2023Academy Award-nominated Chilean director Pablo Larraín (Neruda, Jackie, No, Spencer) and his longtime collaborator writer Guillermo Calderón have just released their new film El Conde (The Count). It’s a robust, bawdy, very funny, slightly over-the-top reimagining...
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‘6ixtynin9’: Sex, drugs and rock and roll!
September 21, 2023Ratanaruang has taken his surprise hit film of 1999 and deftly cut and stitched it into an eight-episode reprise of the eponymously named film.
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‘Pamela: A Love Story’ tackles media sexism and questions of agency, consent
April 27, 2023Often, when people think of Pamela Anderson, they only envision a busty Baywatch blonde. A new Netflix documentary shows there’s much more to the actress.
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Korean series ‘Extraordinary Attorney Woo’ challenges assumptions about autism and ability
September 8, 2022Woo is extraordinary as she is not only the brightest star in her graduating class from Seoul National University, but she is also a high functioning autistic.
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