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Streaming: the best of the Edinburgh film festival 2021
The festival returns with live screenings, but will continue to offer an online edition, with gems from Norway and Iran, plus a 30-year stop-motion passion projectAs the film festival circuit returns to semi-normal – Cannes wrapped a delayed but succes…
Can of wormholes: why have blockbuster franchises become so complicated?
With multiple timelines, planets and even Batmen, are the new frontiers of comic-book films works of genius – or confusing cash-ins?Modern Toss on cinematic multiversesFranchise movie-making is a little like quantum physics. It begins with one simple e…
Bollywood’s Kareena Kapoor subject to online abuse over baby’s name
Supporters say attacks over choice of name similar to 17th-century Muslim Mughal emperor rooted in prejudice against inter-faith marriageBollywood star Kareena Kapoor has received abuse online from extremists over her new baby’s name.Kapoor has been at…
“We are all Martians”
Natalija Majsova (06/09/2020, Strelka Mag; also in a video lecture for the Canadian Centre for Architecture), “Soviet Sci-Fi Film and Different Modalities of Future Ecosystems”: “Irina Povolotskaia’s 1967 debut The Mysterious Wall [75 mins.] pioneered …
Una Stubbs: a life in pictures
Una Stubbs – the actor whose long career took in Summer Holiday, Worzel Gummidge, Till Death Us Do Part and most recently Steven Moffat’s Sherlock – has died aged 84.Una Stubbs, actor in Sherlock and Till Death Us Do Part, dies aged 84Una Stubbs obitua…
Una Stubbs obituary
Sparkling actor whose long, eclectic career ranged from Shakespeare to SherlockUna Stubbs, actor in Sherlock and Till Death Us Do Part, dies aged 84Una Stubbs: a life in picturesBright and bubbly, tart and twinkly, Una Stubbs, who has died aged 84, was…
Don’t Breathe 2 review – dull and dingy home invasion horror sequel
A follow-up to 2016’s sleeper smash reunites us with the murderous blind antihero yet fails to recapture even the slightest bit of tensionAs box office continues to be wounded by both hybrid release strategies and the Delta variant (The Suicide Squad i…
Una Stubbs, actor in Sherlock and Till Death Us Do Part, dies aged 84
TV and film actor, who also starred in Worzel Gummidge, ‘passed away quietly with her family around her’Una Stubbs obituaryUna Stubbs: a life in picturesUna Stubbs, the actor whose long career took in Summer Holiday, Worzel Gummidge, Till Death Us Do P…
Sabaya: the shocking documentary filmed inside Syria’s notorious al-Hawl camp
With car chases and shootouts, it may feel like a Hollywood action flick, but, as the director, Hogir Hirori, explains, the film is really about the exploited women and girls thereIn August 2014, after Islamic State (Isis) militants attacked the Sinjar…