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Film and TV at The Cold Magazine. Directors and writers in conversation, festival dispatches from Venice to Berlin, and the releases shaping what a generation watches.

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‘Working Girls’ at 40: Director Lizzie Borden talks Sex Work Through the Decades

“Does anyone have a job they like?” Forty years on from Lizzie Borden’s feminist masterpiece, sex work is work still…

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Are We Entering the Era of ‘Girl Cinema’?

No, seriously – The Devil Wears Prada 2 really is groundbreaking, with Variety reporting that the sequel has made nearly…

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Girl on Film Reviews the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Cannes 2026

Jordan Firstman Jordan Firstman takes the lead as writer, director and star of his debut Club Kid – a move…

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With Horror Debut Obsession, Curry Barker Wants to Spark Conversation

Cryptic messages plastered across billboards, signed simply: Nikki. How a $750,000 indie horror became one of the year’s most talked-about…

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Parallel Tales, Asghar Farhadi’s set of greatest hits

Asghar Farhadi, an Iranian director excelling in serious business, has made an unserious film.

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Documenting the self at the Barbican’s 2026 Chronic Youth Festival

We may once have gotten our news through broadsheet newspapers, carefully curated by teams of people.

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‘Orlando’ Forever! An Interview With Sally Potter at The Rio

I’m standing in the much-mythologised screening room of the Rio Cinema in Dalston as projectionist Andrew Woodyatt walks me through…

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Akira Predicted the AI Singularity in 1988

It seems an interesting choice to re-release a cyberpunk film about societal breakdown, warring government factions, violent state control, large-scale…