It is taken for granted that virtually all major news events will be seen instantly around the world through 24-hour…
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Al Gore’s climate apocalypse
New Labour leader Jacinda Ardern has declared climate change is her generation’s “nuclear-free moment”.
Women’s lives before feminism
It’s difficult to turn great works of literature into great films. But that doesn’t stop many from trying, particularly when…
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Life behind the Iron Curtain
Living behind the Iron Curtain is distant history to those born after 1990. That includes a large proportion of cinema…
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Human-ape saga reaches climax
When French science fiction writer Pierre Boule’s Planet of the Apes was first filmed in 1968, it tapped into a…
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