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Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi lead an ‘overwrought’ 1950s-set drama about hidden gay lives

TIFFAmid a starry cast, Edgar-Jones especially gives a "beautifully understated" turn as a woman struggling with same-sex attraction – but there's too much plot for the film's own good.In its bare-bones plot, On Swift Horses sounds like a love triangle,...

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The historic roots of goth

Warner Bros/ Parisa TaghizadehFrom its early Germanic roots to Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the Gothic sensibility has journeyed throughout the centuries, morphing through architecture, art, fashion, music and film.Few directors are so instantly recognisable by their aesthetic as Tim Burton....

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How history got Henry VIII wrong

Getty ImagesIn new film Firebrand, Jude Law and Alicia Vikander star as Henry VIII and his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, reframing how history and culture have presented the monarch.Inarguably Britain's most famous male monarch, the silhouette of Henry VIII alone...

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