Science fiction has always been more than laser battles and distant planets. At its best, it is a mirror held up to humanity—examining who we are, where we are going, …
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What is Tron: Ares — a new twist on an old world Tron: Ares is the latest instalment in the long-running Tron franchise. Released on 10 October 2025, it comes …
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Prisoner 951: A Story of Love, Injustice and State Leverage
by alan.dotchinby alan.dotchinIn November 2025, the BBC released Prisoner 951, a powerful four-part factual drama that brings to life the gripping, real-world ordeal of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman who was imprisoned …
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The BBC’s Civilisations: Rise and Fall arrives as a sober, visually ambitious reconsideration of a now-familiar question: why do great societies — those that seem built to last — collapse? …
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Introduction: What Is The Choral (2025)? The Choral is a 2025 British historical drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner and written by Alan Bennett, two titans of British theatre and …
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Here is an in-depth discussion of War and Justice: The Case of Marine A, exploring the background, the legal and moral issues, the documentary’s narrative, and its broader significance. Introduction: …
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Die, My Love: A Deep Dive into Madness, Motherhood, and the Uncontainable Self
by alan.dotchinby alan.dotchinAriana Harwicz’s Die, My Love is one of the most visceral, unsettling, and stylistically radical novels of the 21st century. First published in Spanish as Matate, amor and later translated …
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The 2025 film Nuremberg, written and directed by James Vanderbilt, is a historical-psychological drama that revisits the landmark post-World War II war-crimes trials of top-ranking Nazi officials. It is inspired …
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Introduction Palestine 36 is a major 2025 historical drama written and directed by Annemarie Jacir. The film recounts the 1936-39 Arab Revolt in the British Mandate of Palestine — a …
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The latest chapter in the Predator mythos, Predator: Badlands, arrives as a bold evolution of the franchise — one that turns its familiar alien hunter into the central figure of …
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Every once in a while a film comes along that is less a simple remake and more a passion project — a long-gestating idea finally given shape by a filmmaker …
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Overview Last Breath is a 2025 survival-thriller directed by Alex Parkinson, and written by Parkinson together with Mitchell LaFortune and David Brooks. The film stars Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu and …
