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Houseplant heaven: The best plants to brighten up your student home
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Cooking a week of TikTok recipes on a student budget
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Margarita Month at Zouk: All style, less substance
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My year abroad, the visa process, and getting lost in translation
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Zendaya and the art of theme dressing
Celebrity style guide #6: Michael Schumacher
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Houseplant heaven: The best plants to brighten up your student home
17th April 2024
With the RHS Urban Show coming to Manchester, we've found some of the best houseplants to enhance your student accommodation
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Reading should be for joy, not health
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Making Manchester #1: Anna Marsden
Four women who make the art world a better place
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Live Review: Caroline Polachek at Albert Hall
6th June 2023
Caroline Polachek stuns a sold-out Albert in her rescheduled show, touring her second solo album Desire, I Want To Turn Into You.
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SCALA!!! co-director Jane Giles on audiences, program...
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SCALA!!! co-director Jane Giles on audiences, programming and being a first-time filmmaker: “There has to be room in the film world for all tastes”
16th April 2024
In conversation with Jane Giles, co-director of SCALA!!!, we discuss how she came to make the film, her career in programming and how the London cinema had lasting impact on young audiences
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Top 5: Movie Robots
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Lloyd gives us his Top 5 machines with movie magic
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Preview: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
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With only a month to go until its release, Parizad previews the latest instalment in the Hunger Games franchise
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Biopics: the curse of cinema?
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Ally discusses why film should turn from fact to fiction
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Cornerhouse Pick of the Week: The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
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Faye Broadbent discusses how cinema made philosophy fun in our Cornerhouse pick of the week
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Cornerhouse Pick of the Week: The Great Beauty
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Suraj reviews the latest film from Paolo Sorrentino and tells us why it should be tipped for Oscar glory
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Contrary Corner: Julia Roberts – more than just a pretty woman
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Andriana tells us why we should learn to love Julia Roberts
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Top 5: One-Eyed Movie Characters
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These guys may be partially sighted, but they still know how to pack a punch
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Rowling’s return to the wizarding world
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Jackson Ball discusses J.K. Rowling’s first screenwriting venture
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Top 5: Travel Films
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Parizad Mangi gives us her top 5 films that’ll make you long for next summer!
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Suraj Vara gives his controversial opinion on the latest instalments in the Star Wars franchise
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Ex-Manchester students make first professional film
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We talk to Merlin Merton and Alexander Mansfield Martinez about their latest film ‘Gift From God’
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Think film? Think Manchester!
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A Fresher’s guide to film in Manchester
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Summer 2013 Preview: ‘Man of Steel’
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Preview of one of this summer’s most anticipated film releases
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Top 5: Recurring film couples
Film
This week we countdown acting duos that deliver movie magic time and time again
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I’m sorry but…There are few ‘worse things I could do’ than watch Grease
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Suraj Vara tells us why he finds ‘Grease’ anything but electrifying
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Joaquin Phoenix – the attention seeker
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Suraj Vara takes us through the outrageous shock tactics of Joaquin Phoenix
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Mamma Mia! Here we go again…
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Sophie James tells us why we won’t just be singing carols this Christmas
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‘Keep the Lights On’
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Faye Broadbent reviews Ira Sachs’ latest film
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The ‘Argo’-naut
Film
Sophie James celebrates the many talents of writer, actor and director Ben Affleck as the ultimate comeback kid
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Top 5: Miscast roles
Film
Dan King takes us on a journey from Gotham City to Middle Earth in this week’s top 5
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