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1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Mark Kermode |Adam Nayman |Violet Lucca

With director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland’s 28 Years Later hitting cinemas this week, we revisit Mark Kermode’s review of the first film in the franchise. 17 June 2025After the mainstream meanderings of The Beach, this back-to-basics genre hybrid finds director Danny Boyle on home ground, delivering exactly the kind of pacey entertainment that once earned him the title of “the future of British film”.

Mar 25, 2025 | bfi.org.uk | Ryan Gilbey |Violet Lucca |Catherine Wheatley

Anyone who didn’t see Todd Haynes’s still-illicit featurette Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987) until after it became the stuff of legend and lawsuits may experience their own equivalent shock-of-the-new from The People’s Joker. This, too, is a reputation forging debut, a life story told using dolls and/or avatars, and an absolute copyright minefield.

Jan 8, 2025 | harpers.org | Liz Pelly |Jordan Smith |Cynthia Ozick |Violet Lucca

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Oct 8, 2023 | bloodvine.com | Violet Lucca |Laura Kern |Ann Olsson

It’s often said that you can pick your friends but not your family. Yet in an age of mass communication, it’s never been easier to track down an absentee dad or quietly unfriend a despicable relative on Facebook.

Sep 18, 2023 | harpers.org | Rachel Kushner |Lidija Haas |Violet Lucca

Today we’re rerunning an episode from 2018 featuring two interviews with Harper’s Magazine’s former New Books columnist, Lidija Haas, and with our current Easy Chair columnist Rachel Kushner. Listen in advance of our event tonight at the Center for Fiction, “What Happened to Gen X?,” which will see Harper’s editor Christopher Beha in conversation with his generational peers Rachel Kushner and Ethan Hawke as they explore the question at the center of our September issue.