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Transcendental Cheap Magic: Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas’ At 40

On 3 December 1984, Wham! released a Christmas single that over the years would lose none of its power despite becoming a sonic monolith of the festive season. Ian Wade reflects on how the song has haunted his life, and the strange melancholy of a Christmas pop death.

Black Sky Thinking

Believe In Joy: The Pleasure & Politics Of George Michael

A year after his death, Anna Wood takes a personal, political and adoring look at a few of George Michael’s finest songs.

Anniversary

Choose The Good Life: Club Tropicana By Wham! Revisited

Eli Davies looks back at one of Wham!'s biggest hits and admires what she sees

Things I Have Learned

Silent Night, Miserable Night – Tracey Thorn On Christmas Songs

When she recorded her seasonal album, Tracey Thorn discovered that all Christmas songs are essentially about misery and suffering. Photograph by Edward Bishop

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Baker's Dozen

Music Is My Saviour: Melanie C’s Favourite Albums

Melanie C guides Emma Garland through 13 favourite records in Bakers' Dozen stories from being blessed by Keith from the Prodigy to stage invading a Blur gig, with love for Madonna, Oasis, Fiona Apple and much more along the way

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Girl Interrupted: Revisiting Jane Arden’s The Other Side Of The Underneath

Jane Arden's experimental work about schizophrenia was the only British feature directed by a woman in the 1970s, and remains furiously relevant in its depiction of mental illness, finds Andrew Key

Film

You Leave Me Hanging: Time And Music In Hitchcock’s Vertigo

As its 60th anniversary sees it returning to British cinema screens, Adam Scovell dissects Hitchcock's use of time and repetition in his brilliant 1968 film, Vertigo

Film

Bloodsuckers: Vampires, Antisemitism And Nosferatu At 100

Bram Stoker's antisemitism is well documented, but the villainous image of the outsider, deviant, Jew vampire has been reworked in the 100 years since Nosferatu was released, finds Noah Berlatsky

Film

Notes On Anti-Fascism And Frivolity In Raiders Of The Lost Ark At 40

In 1981, Raiders of the Lost Ark seemed like mindless entertainment – but its legacy as an antifascist statement has only grown stronger in the last 40 years, finds Steve Erickson

Film

Caravan Of Hate: Sightseers Reviewed

Stuart Wright enjoys Ben Wheatley's murderous holiday comedy, which goes on nationwide theatrical release this Friday

Film

Dream A Little Dream: Beautiful Thing, Pride And Thatcher’s Shadow

Hettie MacDonald's 1996 coming-of-age film Beautiful Thing does a rare thing: it gives a gay couple a happy ending. Matt St. Clair writes on the film's enduring bravery

Film

Indie Auteur: A Conversation With Joe Swanberg, ‘Mumblecore’ Lynchpin

Chicago-based indie filmmaker and key figure in the regrettably named 'mumblecore' movement, Joe Swanberg discusses physics, graphic novels and working with non-actors to The Quietus as two of his films, _LOL_ and _Hannah Takes the Stairs_, are released in the UK by ICA films

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Reviews 1

Wham! The Final

Articles 4

Transcendental Cheap Magic: Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas’ At 40

Believe In Joy: The Pleasure & Politics Of George Michael

Choose The Good Life: Club Tropicana By Wham! Revisited

Silent Night, Miserable Night – Tracey Thorn On Christmas Songs

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 1

Music Is My Saviour: Melanie C’s Favourite Albums

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Soul Searching: Lisa Stansfield’s Favourite Albums

Pin Ups: A David Bowie Baker’s Dozen Compilation

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Girl Interrupted: Revisiting Jane Arden’s The Other Side Of The Underneath

You Leave Me Hanging: Time And Music In Hitchcock’s Vertigo

Bloodsuckers: Vampires, Antisemitism And Nosferatu At 100

Notes On Anti-Fascism And Frivolity In Raiders Of The Lost Ark At 40

Caravan Of Hate: Sightseers Reviewed

Dream A Little Dream: Beautiful Thing, Pride And Thatcher’s Shadow

Indie Auteur: A Conversation With Joe Swanberg, ‘Mumblecore’ Lynchpin

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