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Five tips for becoming a cinephile in the age of streaming algorithms

Five tips for becoming a cinephile in the age of streaming algorithms

So you want to be a cinephile? It used to be easy enough. When the first generation of film audiences emerged in the early 1900s, film clubs began...

28.11.2025 3

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Alexander Sergeant

Long Story Short: an appealing but unsuccessful animated fantasy of memory and liberalism

The show fails to make us connect with the Schwoopers whose problems end up seeming small and insignificant.

04.09.2025 4

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Alexander Sergeant

What The Rock’s big box office bomb tells us about our needs and desires at Christmas

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – a time for carolling and concerts, trees and tinsel, mulled wine, open fires and, of course, The Rock...

14.12.2024 20

The Guardian

Alexander Sergeant

Red One: this Dwayne Johnson flop demonstrates Hollywood’s longstanding problem with Christmas

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – a time for carolling and concerts, trees and tinsel, mulled wine, open fires and, of course, The Rock...

12.12.2024 4

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Alexander Sergeant