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Inside Cinema - Shorts: 48. Cinema Jerks
Inside Cinema
Shorts: 48. Cinema Jerks
Contains adult themes.
Leslie Byron Pitt salutes the smug, self-serving ing characters we love to hate.
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9 Sep 2020
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Shorts: 61. Cameo Overload
Ali Plumb explores how a movie in-joke has now become a key part of the franchise toolkit
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Shorts: 60. Jukebox Musicals
Dewi Evans waxes lyrical about musicals that breathe new life into songs we know and love
6 mins
Shorts: 59. Queer Villains
Caspar Salmon examines why so many big-screen villains seem to be pointedly camp.
7 mins
Shorts: 58. The Jump Scare
Boo! Mike Muncer examines the filmmaking technique used to jolt viewers out of their seat
8 mins
Shorts: 57. Nuns On Film
Pamela Hutchinson sings the praises of film's inspiring and subversive sisters.
6 mins
Shorts: 56. Fat and Female on Film
Grace Barber-Plentie’s body-positive celebration of being fat and female on film.
6 mins
Shorts: 55. Strong Female Characters
Hanna Flint asks if a Strong Female Character kicking ass is always empowering?
6 mins
Shorts: 54. The Cher Factor
As part of International Women's Month Anna Bogutskaya celebrates the talents of Cher.
8 mins
Shorts: 53. Rave Britannia
Ellen E Jones spends a night on the town examining how film and TV like to party.
8 mins
Shorts: 52. Beside The Sea
Pamela Hutchinson gives a guided tour of the British coast on the big screen.
9 mins
Shorts: 51. Beyond Aardman
Alex Dudok de Wit gets to grips with the hand-crafted art of stop-motion puppet animation.
9 mins
Shorts: 50. Witches
Elizabeth Sankey reviews cinema's complex relationship with wickedly powerful women.
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Black History Month: 4. Ryan Coogler
Documentary from Kambole Campbell on Ryan Coogler, director of Black Panther and Creed.
14 mins
Black History Month: 3. Barry Jenkins
Documentary from Grace Barber-Plentie on trailblazing Moonlight director Barry Jenkins.
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Black History Month: 2. Ava DuVernay
Documentary from Corrina Antrobus on groundbreaking film director Ava DuVernay.
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Black History Month: 1. Jordan Peele
Documentary from Ellen E Jones on the zeitgeist-capturing film director Jordan Peele.
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Shorts: 49. Pubs On Film
Raise a glass to the boozer, a familiar fixture in film that reflects British life.
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Shorts: 48. Cinema Jerks
Shorts: 47. The Dragon Lady
Zing Tsjeng examines a Hollywood stereotype of Asian women: the cold, crafty Dragon Lady.
7 mins
Shorts: 46. The Rashomon Effect
Jessica Kiang deciphers a storytelling technique that's kept viewers guessing since 1950.
6 mins
Shorts: 45. Lynchian Nightmares
Mike Muncer explores the dark, uncanny world of filmmaker David Lynch.
8 mins
Shorts: 44. Inside Cinemas
Catherine Bray takes a look at the most dramatic place to set a scene in film: the cinema.
8 mins
Shorts: 43. Beauty Queen Dreams
Beth Webb explores how movies can subvert the patriarchal concept of the beauty pageant.
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Shorts: 42. Summer Holidays
In the movies, a dream holiday can mean anything from a makeover to a murder spree...
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Shorts: 41. Classic Lit To Teen Hit
Rhianna Dhillon argues that teen movies are perfect for adaptations of classic literature.
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Shorts: 40. Pop Docs
Simran Hans turns the camera on the all-access pop-star documentary.
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Shorts: 39. The Dolly Zoom
Tim Robey zooms in on a camera technique that has left heads spinning for over 60 years.
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Shorts: 38. Lust, Camera, Action!
How does cinema treat women's lust? Christina Newland takes a close look.
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Shorts: 37. Bands in Films
One, two, three, four! Elizabeth Sankey sings the praises of cinema's best bands.
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Shorts: 36. Studio Ghibli Magic
Michael Leader explores how Japanese animators Studio Ghibli find magic in the everyday.
5 mins
Shorts: 35. Film Flirtations
The most romantically-charged moments in films are often those before the kissing starts.
8 mins
Shorts: 34. Licence to Spoof
Spoofs, Bond spoofs. We take aim at the subgenre of spies that have parodied 007.
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Shorts: 33. Fast and Furious Families
They say you can’t choose family, but the Fast and Furious franchise begs to differ...
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Shorts: 32. Movie Buddies
Inside Cinema salutes cinema’s iconic duos and explores what makes a film friendship.
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Shorts: 31. Dancing Teens
Get into the groove with Inside Cinema's look at iconic dance scenes in '80s teen movies.
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Shorts: 30. Who Killed the Erotic Thriller?
The '90s saw A-list casts baring all in tales of high-concept intrigue... they vanished.
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