Since lockdown began, the 2011 film Contagion has become one of the most watched films online. This is hardly surprising, given that it's about a global pandemic, but it's also very surprising because who in their right mind would watch a film about that right now, while we're actually living it? Well, apparently I would. I… Continue reading I watched ‘Contagion’ during lockdown so you don’t have to
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How Greta Gerwig adapted ‘Little Women’ for a modern feminist audience
Picture this: me as a child, walking into a old-fashioned sunlit room in a little brown house in America. In front of me, fixed to the wall between two windows, is a cream-coloured semicircle of wood. There's an inkwell standing on it, and a sheet of paper covered in neat handwriting. The child-me looks so… Continue reading How Greta Gerwig adapted ‘Little Women’ for a modern feminist audience
Clare Diston 