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I’m Still Listening – Why Frasier remains my favourite ’90s sitcom

By William Carroll

Twenty-five years on, the show’s mix of high-brow humour and genuine heart is as appealing as ever.

On Location: The brutalist tower blocks of A Clockwork Orange

By Adam Scovell

Visiting the southeast London estate featured in Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film makes for a dystopian experience.

Why I love Patricia Arquette’s performance in True Romance

By Justine Smith

Her role as lovestruck sex worker Alabama is among the most compelling characters of the 1990s.

The camp, satirical aesthetic of queer classic But I’m a Cheerleader

By Megan Wallace

Jamie Babbit’s film offers a more comedic critique of conversion therapy.

Why the gay conversion therapy drama is having a moment

By Jonathan Mahon-Heap

The Miseducation of Cameron Post and Boy Erased find different ways to confront this harmful practice.

It’s time to discover FilmStruck

By Little White Lies

A new premium streaming service is here to satisfy all your movie needs.

Dawn of the Dead had an alternate ending that’s even bleaker than the original

By Justine Smith

George A Romero originally had a different fate in store for the protagonists of his zombie classic.

A Hitchcock classic screening in 3D

By David Jenkins

MUBI and LWLies present Hitchcock’s sublime chiller, Dial M for Murder, at London’s Rio Cinema.

How BlacKkKlansman joins the dots between our racist past and present

By Kambole Campbell

Like Do the Right Thing and Bamboozled before it, Spike Lee’s film is a wake up call to white America.

How Smithereens captured the scuzzy charm of post-punk New York

By Shane O’Reilly

Susan Seidelman’s debut feature is an unflinching portrait of the city’s underground scene.

Discover the ethical outrage of this erotic Japanese drama

By Anton Bitel

Akio Jissôji’s celebrated – and controversial – This Transient Life boldly challenges social convention.

How Spike Lee bends the truth to tackle contemporary racism

By Tom Bond

In BlacKkKlansman, the director dramatises real-life events in order to make his point.

How Sharp Objects helped me open up about my condition

By Catherine Pearson

The show’s depiction of the rare hair pulling disorder trichotillomania hit very close to home.

Spike Lee and the art of the challenging postscript

By Chance Solem-Pfeifer

BlacKkKlansman is the latest ‘Spike Lee Joint’ to feature a powerful, thought-provoking epilogue.

A new documentary boldly challenges our perceptions of death

By Matt Turner

Steven Eastwood’s Island follows four terminally ill people across the final year of their lives.

The enduring legacy of Claudia Weill’s Girlfriends

By Katie Goh

This overlooked classic pioneered an entire subgenre of films about women living in the big city.

Is now the perfect time for a Sin City reboot?

By Robert Blair

With the rights to the property having reverted back to series creator Frank Miller, we could be set for a return to Basin City.

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