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Anna Bogutskaya

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Deep Water fails to revive the erotic thriller

Deep Water fails to revive the erotic thriller

The Face — Any erotic thriller has two jobs: it needs to arouse and it needs to make you feel uncomfortable about your own arousal.
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Succession and TV's super-rich: Have we stopped ogling them?

Succession and TV's super-rich: Have we stopped ogling them?

BBC — Earlier this month, the latest series of Succession, the hit HBO drama about warring media family the Roys, concluded with an explosive finale set at the Tuscan wedding of Lady Caroline Collingwood, ex-wife of patriarch Logan Roy and mother to three of the Roy children.
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Movie stars can make a movie, but who makes the stars?

Movie stars can make a movie, but who makes the stars?

wetransfer.com — What does a casting director actually do, and why is it so important? Here, we explore one of the most crucial, yet overlooked, roles in the film industry
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Dread is the modern condition - no wonder the Halloween franchise still resonates | Anna Bogutska...

Dread is the modern condition - no wonder the Halloween franchise still resonates | Anna Bogutska...

The Guardian — uring the past 18 months we've collectively experienced more anxiety than we could ever have imagined, which ironically makes it fitting that our appetite for horror has increased. Anxious times demand anxious films. Indie film-makers responded to the lockdowns by making horror films that reflected our mood: Ben Wheatley made the psychedelic earth-horror, Into the Earth,seeped in pandemic paranoia, and Rob Savage tapped into the horror of Zoom calls with Host.
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The Divisive Power of American Horror Story, Ten Years on - Den of Geek

The Divisive Power of American Horror Story, Ten Years on - Den of Geek

Den of Geek — Features Ten years after the first episode was broadcast, American Horror Story is still going strong. But what makes Ryan Murphy's expanded horror universe so enduring-and divisive? Some days, it's hard to be a Ryan Murphy fan. The minute American Horror Story comes up, people have a knee-jerk reaction.
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The Blair Witch Project - Tortoise

The Blair Witch Project - Tortoise

Tortoise — Listen to Anna Bogutskaya read her Slow Review of The Blair Witch Project The Blair Witch Project is the Bloody Mary of horror films; you know, the ghost that's meant to appear when you repeat her name into a mirror. You convince yourself that this urban legend isn't real, but in the back of your mind there's the niggling thought...
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Meet the new gen horror stars of Fear Street

Meet the new gen horror stars of Fear Street

i-D-UK — Netflix There are certain characters that don't make it past the first act in a horror movie. Black, queer or female characters who are not ' the final girl' are rarely the protagonist and even more infrequently make it alive to the end, but Fear Street does something different.
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How Brendan Fraser invented the modern himbo

How Brendan Fraser invented the modern himbo

Little White Lies (magazine) — How Brendan Fraser invented the modern himbo Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we've been described as being "at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement."
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Emerald Fennell on Promising Young Woman

Emerald Fennell on Promising Young Woman

BFI — Sign up for Sight & Sound's Weekly Film Bulletin and more News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. ▶ Promising Young Woman is available on Sky Cinema. Anna Bogutskaya: What came first in the development of the film?
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Sean Baker on Red Rocket's Radical Empathy

Sean Baker on Red Rocket's Radical Empathy

curzon.com — Acclaimed independent filmmaker Sean Baker speaks to Anna Bogutskaya about telling human stories, challenging audience expectations and smashing sex-industry stereotypes in his latest film about a morally ambiguous suitcase pimp.
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Why Britney Spears' Crossroads is an underrated coming-of-age classic

Why Britney Spears' Crossroads is an underrated coming-of-age classic

Little White Lies (magazine) — The year is 2002, and Ms Britney Jean Spears is the biggest star in the world, about to premiere her first ever starring role in the road trip Crossroads.
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John Waters is calling bullshit on good music taste

John Waters is calling bullshit on good music taste

The Line of Best Fit — As legendary director John Waters gets ready for this year's Primavera Pro - where he's set to appear in conversation with LGBT activist and artist Samantha Hudson - he talks to Anna Bogutskaya about music, film, books and the spurious notion of good taste.
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Maryam Yousif's sculptures inspired by the Middle East

Maryam Yousif's sculptures inspired by the Middle East

WePresent — Even though she hasn't gone back to her hometown since emigrating, nineties pop culture from the Middle East has imprinted on her in a big way.
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