Rex Butler

Post-ghost. Medium.

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Three Porn Documentaries (2008-2013)

I saw three documentaries about a six billion dollar industry.

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‘71 (Yann Demange, 2014)

As doomed as I am to watch anything set in Northern Ireland, I’m also doomed to accept that the politics will leave me unsatisfied. The…

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Emilia Galotti (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 1774)

Arthur Schopenhauer found the final scene of this famous German play to be “positively revolting”. “Gratuitous,” trilled F.G. Ryder. “The…

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Pride (Matthew Warchus, 2014)

I needed cinematic comfort food, after a frustrating week (I watched a woman bag-snatched by bike-bound hoodies on the streets of Archway…

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