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The Manipulation Game: How Harvey Weinstein built an Oscar campaign around Turing’s tragic legacy
The Manipulation Game: How Harvey Weinstein built an Oscar campaign around Turing’s tragic legacy
Dozens of FYC campaigns come and go every year, many using intuitive and compelling methods and arguments to get voters’ attention and…
Lucien WD
May 24, 2020
Grown Ups, Punching Down: Class and guilt in Adam Sandler’s comedies
Grown Ups, Punching Down: Class and guilt in Adam Sandler’s comedies
“Being rich and powerful isn’t a bad thing. The problem is what can happen when you decide that you would do absolutely anything to become…
Lucien WD
May 25, 2020
Immigrant Songs: Finian’s Rainbow and the Irish-American experience
Immigrant Songs: Finian’s Rainbow and the Irish-American experience
Coppola’s Godfather trilogy is a chronicle of many things — the irresistibility of criminality, the inevitability of betrayal — but it’s…
Lucien WD
May 29, 2020
Steve Carell is this generation’s Robin Williams. He just doesn’t know it yet.
Steve Carell is this generation’s Robin Williams. He just doesn’t know it yet.
I hate to start on such a bummer note, but I was watching Space Force last night.
Lucien WD
May 31, 2020
The 100 Best TV Episodes Of The Century
The 100 Best TV Episodes Of The Century
As television has made greater leaps towards becoming the dominant creatively-driven screen format, individual standout episodes have…
Lucien WD
Jul 5, 2020
‘Marwen’ Mania: The night a bad Steve Carell movie caused me a panic attack
‘Marwen’ Mania: The night a bad Steve Carell movie caused me a panic attack
364 days a year, cinema acts for me as a free and non-prescription anti depressant and source of near-spiritual hope and reassurance…
Lucien WD
Aug 9, 2019
Sound and Fury: Resisting addiction to CNN’s all-hours sensationalism
Sound and Fury: Resisting addiction to CNN’s all-hours sensationalism
I find myself in an ethical conundrum these days. On the one hand, I’m disgusted by CNN, the epitome of white liberal smugness, and the…
Lucien WD
Jan 9, 2021
In ‘Normal People’, Irish specificity competes with Hollywood cliche
In ‘Normal People’, Irish specificity competes with Hollywood cliche
Given that almost every film and TV show I’ve watched during this emotionally-draining quarantine has made me cry, it’s remarkable how…
Lucien WD
Apr 28, 2020
The 20 Best Actors Working Today
The 20 Best Actors Working Today
From stalwarts of the New York stage to up-and-coming British favourites, it’s time to reveal our latest selection of The 20 Best Actors…
Lucien WD
Dec 26, 2020
‘Uncut Gems’ is cinema for the veins
‘Uncut Gems’ is cinema for the veins
Adam Sandler redefines his screen legacy with a vivid and visceral performance.
Lucien WD
Jan 11, 2020
Person of the Year: The Case for Lil Nas X
Person of the Year: The Case for Lil Nas X
Amidst a global climate of division and cultural animosity, one unlikely cowboy rode into the Top 40 this Spring with an air of confidence…
Lucien WD
Dec 11, 2019
Eat The Rich: ‘Knives Out’ and ‘Parasite’ offer gleeful class warfare
Eat The Rich: ‘Knives Out’ and ‘Parasite’ offer gleeful class warfare
Cinema has long proposed there is nothing more frightening than an enormous old house, but what of its wealthy owners? Jordan Peele’s Get…
Lucien WD
Dec 1, 2019
Is Damon Lindelof the last truly imaginative storyteller in Hollywood?
Is Damon Lindelof the last truly imaginative storyteller in Hollywood?
When given the keys to one of the most recognisable comic-book properties in history, most TV showrunners would not pump their adaptation…
Lucien WD
Nov 5, 2019
‘The King of Staten Island’ and the management of crisis
‘The King of Staten Island’ and the management of crisis
- “Time is passing by very quickly”
Lucien WD
Jun 13, 2020
‘Years and Years’: Visceral Brexit sci-fi with the subtlety of a sledgehammer
‘Years and Years’: Visceral Brexit sci-fi with the subtlety of a sledgehammer
Perhaps the easiest way to sum up the arc Years and Years depicted from its first episode to its sixth is “The News meets Interstellar”. A…
Lucien WD
Jun 19, 2019
Michael Stuhlbarg lost at the Emmys and Jeff Daniels (who won) understands my pain
Michael Stuhlbarg lost at the Emmys and Jeff Daniels (who won) understands my pain
Last night Michael Stuhlbarg was nominated at a televised awards show for the first time since the 2010 Golden Globes. And he could’ve won…
Lucien WD
Sep 18, 2018
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