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‘September 5’ (2024)
Does the media report the news, or create it? What is the moral role of journalists in extreme situations? And what difference does the...

Chris Rogers
Feb 45 min read
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Location, location, location
As my interest in and knowledge of film and architecture have grown, I’ve become more and more absorbed by how backlot sets and actual...

Chris Rogers
Dec 15, 20243 min read
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'Civil War' (2024)
For many, Civil War will be defined by a single line delivered by a man wearing camouflage and carrying a rifle: “Okay. What kind of...

Chris Rogers
Apr 25, 20244 min read
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‘Dune: Part Two’ (2024)
Cinema can provide an escape from reality and science fiction is supposed to foretell the future. You have to choose your film wisely,...

Chris Rogers
Mar 17, 20244 min read
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The Substitutions of Sir Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott had to recast Napoleon after the pandemic affected industry schedules worldwide; the same problem affected House of Gucci,...
Chris Rogers
Jan 20, 20245 min read
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Screen saver 2: Lights, camera, action!
The BFI IMAX screen reopens to the public today following a few weeks of closure for re-equipping and refurbishment, this in turn coming...
Chris Rogers
Nov 11, 20227 min read
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Beyond Bond
Today is Global Bond Day, marking the release of Dr. No sixty years ago and the film series that went on to embed itself in the culture...
Chris Rogers
Oct 5, 20224 min read
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Screen saver
Today the British Film Institute regains control of the IMAX cinema it built at Waterloo twenty years ago, a decade after being forced by...
Chris Rogers
Jul 19, 20228 min read
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"Things you people wouldn't believe..." Blade Runner at forty
Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, initially unsuccessful but now an accepted classic and hugely influential, was released four decades ago...
Chris Rogers
Jun 25, 20224 min read
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'Dune' (2021)
Part two of director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune has been given the go ahead. That’s good, as most of his first part was moving and majestic....
Chris Rogers
Dec 4, 20213 min read
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All work and no pay
On the rare occasions, now, that I actually go into the office I walk past a WeWork in central London. I was vaguely aware of what it was...
Chris Rogers
Dec 3, 20215 min read
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