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Stanley Kubrick hoarded boxes of research materials and screenplay drafts. A lot of boxes, accumulated over decades of work, as the Jon Ronson documentary Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes showed. In a way, they are the raw material of his legacy;…

Recent high-profile deaths in the music industry have thrown up questions around troubled artists being driven and inspired by emotional turmoil. Can demons be exorcised through creativity? Or does the demand for inspiration start driving…

Widely regarded as one of the worst films of all time, Tom Green’s 2001 comedy Freddy Got Fingered is far from it. From every technical standpoint, the film is competently made and tightly structured. What seems to grate with people is the…

Kingdom of Heaven is Ridley Scott’s 2005 Crusades epic. It depicts a period of history when an egomaniac, rallying radicalised jingoists, takes over from a cool-headed man of peace. So a re-watch of its Director’s Cut and some…

Kevin Myers has courted a lot of controversy through the views he espoused in his column for the Irish Independent. Now The Sunday Times have published (and swiftly deleted) a column where he argued that pay disparity between the genders…

The mainstream media would label me a “cancer denier”. I prefer the term “cancer sceptic”. There remain many questions surrounding the so-called consensus from the medical community that cancerous cells growing in the human body can…

Life, Animated is a documentary portrait of one man’s life on the autistic spectrum from Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Roger Ross Williams. Owen Suskind was thought to be non-verbal autistic until Disney’s catalogue of animated…

Donald John Trump is going to be President of the United States! Donald John Trump was the Chairman of the Trump Organisation and he is going to be President of the United States! And woe is us! We're in a lot of trouble! So, a rich…

Just once, I want to see a movie about autistic people who are shit at maths. Like me. Yes, I have Asperger’s Syndrome. No, I will not go with you to Las Vegas on your J1 (one person asking me this was too many). In any case, I am…

How much can music influence someone’s political beliefs? Whenever entertainers speak out for a cause or explore it in their work, there’s often something ham-fisted in how they express their view or understand the topic. But aside from…