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High Tech, Old English: Beowulf And The Green Knight
The refurbishment of ancient stories with cutting edge visual effects projects current anxieties without thinking about futuristic storytelling - but Tom Duggins asks what might have changed in the last 14 years since the last big take on an Old English classic
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Running Away: Bronski Beat’s Smalltown Boy In Gay Cinema
Bronski Beat's 1984 floor-filler 'Smalltown Boy' has travelled through cinema as a marker as gay cultural subjectivities since 1986's Parting Glances. Jack King maps the song's onscreen history and its reckoning with the queer tension between love and death
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Be Kind, Rewind: Lessons From The Cross Pollination Of The 1960s And 1970s
As new releases are currently sparse, looking back to past successes of cross-pollination in action films feels crucial. Spaghetti Westerns borrowed from Kurosawa, Bruce Lee built a bridge between East and West. Thomas H. Sheriff looks back on a decade of cultural frenzy
