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Victorian Sex Workers

  • by johnschronicle
  • Posted on 13 Feb 2021

By Lucy Mainwaring-Parr. Late Victorian Britain provided a setting for a moral panic surrounding sex…

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The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

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  • Posted on 11 Mar 202029 May 2020

By Lucy Mainwaring-Parr. Inspired by Café Scientifique, Lucy considers how the simulation hypothesis relates to cinema and the moral dilemmas it raises.

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Two For One (2019) – A Prasanna Sellathurai Film

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  • Posted on 13 Nov 201920 May 2022

By Lucy Mainwaring-Parr. A review of Prasanna Sellathurai’s new short film ‘Two For One’, shot within St. John’s College.

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Can you ever forgive me? (2019)

  • by johnschronicle
  • Posted on 18 Mar 201911 Mar 2019

By Lucy Mainwaring-Parr. Melissa McCarthy’s name, since her standout appearance in the slap-stick comedy Bridesmaids in 2011, has grown synonymous with screwball performances and incredulous plots. But her new serious biopic may be one of the best performances of her career.

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Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)

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  • Posted on 11 Feb 2019

By Lucy Mainwaring-Parr. Happiness is an elusive concept, a term used rather flippantly in daily conversations. It is seen as an “adult” goal and perhaps the most inescapable objective. However, as Hector shows, this idea is one to be challenged.

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The Favourite (2019)

  • by johnschronicle
  • Posted on 21 Jan 201921 Jan 2019

By Lucy Mainwaring-Parr.
This is not your regular historical drama. It’s contorted in every element and cuttingly modern despite its backdrop of the early 18th century.

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They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)

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  • Posted on 10 Dec 201818 Jan 2019

On the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War, Peter Jackson produces what could be one of the most technologically advanced tributes.

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  • Arts and Culture

Death Becomes Her

  • by johnschronicle
  • Posted on 19 Nov 201818 Jan 2019

Halloween films are best when they are cult classics; it’s a day meant for suspending your belief in reality, with cartoonish colour palettes and ridiculous CGI taking the screen without the risk of being critiqued too seriously.

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