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Review: Diana – The untold and untrue story

Review: Diana – The untold and untrue story

Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story is a queer person’s love-letter to the People’s Princess, timely comic relief given current anti-trans politics

Contrary Corner: Almost Famous but never quite the hit

The box office bomb of Oliver Hirshbiegel’s royalist-bait Diana biopic to compliment it’s critical mauling shows the rare commercial failure of a genre littered with banal Oscar begging (The King’s Speech) and vapidly toothless portrayals of their muses (Notorious and The Iron Lady, which manage to transform The Notorious B.I.G into Mother Teresa and Margaret Thatcher into […]

The evolution of a Fashion Princess

Anna Sopel reflects on one of the worlds most important fashion icons.

Biopics: the curse of cinema?

Ally discusses why film should turn from fact to fiction

Review: Diana

The failures of Diana prove that trying to simply profit from a national tragedy, blindly retelling well known history, is lazy and in this case borders on emotional manipulation.

Currently showing – September 2013

Whilst not quite awards season, we can certainly hear the engines starting as a greater proportion of independent and heavier films see release. Here is a slice of what you can see over the next couple of weeks.