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Trying to understand an epic poem 2,000 years after it was originally performed as an oral ballad is...
Book adaptations have always divided opinion, especially with texts as well-loved and...
“Art is free, shameless, irresponsible: the movement is intense, almost feverish; it...
Die, My Love (2025) is directed by the brilliant filmmaker Lynne Ramsay,...
Daisy Greetham Very few TV shows can maintain a 100% Rotten Tomatoes...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s magnum opus, Frankenstein, has greatly influenced the arts over...
“It’s a hard thing, realising people aren’t who you want them to...
I watched One Battle After Another in the same week that I...
Alice Lowe’s Timestalker is an inventive, genre-bending dark comedy that traverses time,...
Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, which marks its 50th anniversary this year, struggled...
Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s new film, All We Imagine as Light, won...
The Dr. Strangelove stage adaptation at London’s Noel Coward Theatre delivers a...
“Tennis is a relationship”, says Tashi Duncan (Zendaya) in director Luca Guadagnino’s...
2001: A Space Odyssey is a landmark film in the history of...
It is the centenary of the cinema premiere of the German horror...
It’s one of the most famous climactic scenes in film: a tense...
Fresh from All of Us Strangers (2023), Andrew Scott plays the title...
The filmmakers behind Love Lies Bleeding (director Rose Glass and her co-writer...
The film, directed by Mark Mylod, known for producing and directing the...
Never one to downplay the power of film, Stanley Kubrick once said...
Nothing about The Green Knight, the new film from director David Lowery,...
As a mother trying to raise a daughter free from the gendered...
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Trying to understand an epic poem 2,000 years after it was originally performed as an oral ballad is quite difficult. Especially when it is translated with various interpretations, commentaries and debates regarding words, grammar, syntax, structure or even how we are to perceive a certain character. I really enjoyed studying The Odyssey for IB English…
