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The performance of watching: Cinema in the Letterboxd age

While watching Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (2025) a few weeks ago, I found myself asking a rather disturbing question: “I wonder what people on Letterboxd are...

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Film festivals should be more pretentious, actually!

Film festivals often get a bad rep. We’ve all heard the stereotype before: they...

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On the edge of honesty: ‘The Man Who Turned into a Stick’

To rehearse and perform an entire student production before the second week of Michaelmas...

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Erotic suspense and trickery: ‘Twelfth Night’ at St Hugh’s

Lovers mismatched, siblings detached, and plans of trickery hatched: it is the time of...

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Culture

The performance of watching: Cinema in the Letterboxd age

Film festivals should be more pretentious, actually!

On the edge of honesty: ‘The Man Who Turned into a Stick’

Erotic suspense and trickery: ‘Twelfth Night’ at St Hugh’s

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