In November 1983 ABC aired The Day After – a one-off TV movie depicting a nuclear war between NATO and...

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Amazon are making the world’s most expensive TV show – an adaptation of Lord of the Rings, with the New...

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I continue my review of HBO’s The Newsroom by looking at season two – wherein a series of whistleblowers accuse...

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The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it. In this episode we examine dozens of films...

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12 Angry Men is a Hollywood classic about a jury trying to decide whether a young man is guilty of...

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In a year of very few theatrical releases it’s been a bad time for state-sponsored culture, so in this episode...

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I continue the more philosophical theme in recent subscribercasts by outlining the ancient Greek model of moral philosophy known as...

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In this subscriber-only podcast we take a sideways look at one of the most popular philosophical conflicts. I explore some...

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Tom Hanks is perhaps the last of the classic Hollywood leading men, and has starred in some of the most...

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I decided to do a subscriber-only review of the HBO TV series The Newsroom, with an episode looking at each...

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