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Behind vinyl’s unlikely comeback

Behind vinyl’s unlikely comeback

In a music buying industry now dominated by iTunes and music streaming services such as Spotify, Napster, Pandora and Jay-Z’s recently released Tidal, the CD and physical music store are reportedly in sharp (and potentially terminal) decline. But a curious development

Better Call Saul: Gilligan does it again

<i>Better Call Saul</i>: Gilligan does it again

How do we become the people we are? In AMC’s Breaking Bad we saw how Walter White ended up as Heisenberg and how Jesse Pinkman ended up more broken than he began. But what about Saul Goodman

The forces transforming television

The forces transforming television

If you watch the upcoming season 5 finale of The Walking Dead, the story will likely evoke events from previous episodes, while making references to an array of minor and major characters. Such storytelling devices belie the show’s simplistic scenario of zombie survival

Chappie: sentient but not intelligent

<i>Chappie</i>: sentient but not intelligent

Neill Blomkamp’s 2009 debut feature, District 9, seemed to signal the arrival of a major new talent with the dark wit and visual flair to become the new Paul Verhoeven of Total Recall and Robocop fame. Elysium’s poor scripting and wooden performances left his potential

Chappie, Hollywood and the ethics of AI

<i>Chappie</i>, Hollywood and the ethics of AI

From The Terminator to The Matrix, science-fiction movies have captured our fear of dystopian futures where we are ruled or subjugated by our own robotic creations. But Neill Blomkamp’s new film, Chappie features a far more humanised robot. Along with

Nightcrawler: if it bleeds, it leads

Nightcrawler: if it bleeds, it leads

“All the animals come out at night,” said one of cinema’s most memorable misfits in Taxi Driver, and among nocturnal prowlers, few are hungrier, more relentless and more cold-blooded than Nightcrawler’s

Why we’re so obsessed with zombies

Why we’re so obsessed with zombies

The zombie invasion is here. Our bookshops, cinemas and TVs are dripping with the pustulating debris of their relentless shuffle to cultural domination. A search for “zombie fiction” on Amazon currently provides you with more than 25 000 options. Barely

At its core, American Sniper is about white fear

At its core, <i>American Sniper</i> is about white fear

Liberal writers have been lining up for the last month and a half to decry American Sniper along comfortable and predictable ideological lines. “Macho Sludge” was the title of an Alternet piece by

Kingsman: licence to mock

<i>Kingsman</i>: licence to mock

This will be a busy year for cinematic spies with James Bond to return in Spectre, Ethan Hunt back for another Mission: Impossible and director Guy Ritchie rebooting the cult 1960s TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E as a feature film. First off the mark is

Oscars preview: year of the indies?

Oscars preview: year of the indies?

In January 2004, the third instalment of The Lord of the Rings received 11 Academy Award nominations. From the outset, it was the clear favourite in the Oscars race. Behind it, there was an assortment of studio films such as Mystic River, Seabiscuit and Master and Commander

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