Month: August 2025
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Built to endure or built to break (UK)
Take a walk down almost any British high street, and you’re walking on the bones of the Victorian Empire. Not in a metaphorical sense—though there’s plenty of that too—but in the very real sense of cobbled sewers, cast iron water mains, gas lamps retrofitted to electricity, and railways that, while modernised, often trace the exact…
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MATERIALISTS – A24’s Glossy Rom‑Dramedy That Counts the Cost of Love
Celine Song’s Materialists glitters with sleek cinematography and star power—but beneath the polish lies a deceptively sharp critique of romance-as-commerce. Dakota Johnson plays Lucy, a high-end NYC matchmaker whose days are spent comparing partners like stock investments—and doubting whether love can be quantified . Once herself an “eternal bachelorette,” Lucy has climbed from failed actress…