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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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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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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…
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I Kissed A Girl Cast: ‘Lesbians Are Being Hit’ by BBC Axing Show
There are literally laws against trans women in the UK.
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Amelié’s Emboldening Optimism, 25 Years On
At the turn of the millenium, an influx of (predominantly American) cinematic releases set out to explore a critical sense…
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Personas: Sight and Scent with Cremate and Ethereal Maison
In an evening that brought together the senses, The Cold Magazine, in collaboration with Cremate and Ethereal Maison, held a…
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Long Live the Music Video!: Behind-the-Scenes with the Music Video Preservation Society
I did not expect to see a queue in front of the Prince Charles Cinema (PCC) on a Thursday evening,…
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What ‘The Drama’ Tells Us About Wedding Films
Coffee shop meet-cutes, witty banter, British boys in glasses: Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama calls us back to the golden age…
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A Cinematic Guide to Mothers
Good mothers, bad mothers, mothers trying their best, mothers too tired to try at all.
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‘Resurrection’ and the Grammar of Cinematic Dreams
Dreams teach humans to believe in cinema, and cinema prepares humans to die.
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A Love Letter To Claymation
2026 marks 50 years of Aardman, the Academy Award-winning stop motion studio, and celebrations will ensue.
