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Strange Way of Life

Has any short film garnered as much buzz at Cannes as Strange Way of Life? Ever since a…

By Selina Sondermann
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If the Streets Were on Fire

Alice Russell‘s documentary If the Streets Were on Fire deals with knife crime, but not directly: the protagonists are…

By Mersa Auda
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The National – Laugh Track

The National have already released one of the year’s best-reviewed LPs, The First Two Pages of Frankenstein, their first…

By Christopher Connor
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Sugababes at the O2 Arena

They've had even more line-up changes than Destiny’s Child but, for many, the initial incarnation of the Sugababes…

By Jonathan Marshall
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A Haunting in Venice

Agatha Christie’s Hallowe’en Party proved a rather astonishing choice for the next instalment in Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot…

By Selina Sondermann
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Dumb Money

In the world of trading, retail (individual) investors are called "dumb money”, deemed poor investments by the big…

By Guy Lambert