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This week in The Metropolitan, Rowan has written about what makes things ‘better than they need to be’, a prime example of which is the sci-fi / horror movie ‘Alien’
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Sturgeon’s Law states that ‘90% of everything is crap’, which also includes The Metropolitan, although hopefully not this week’s essay on what makes a piece of work ‘better than it needs to be’
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This week in The Metropolitan, Rowan is trying to figure out exactly what has made us so annoyed with the show ‘Ludwig’. And also with the coverage of the show ‘Ludwig’ come to that.
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This week The Metropolitan is getting annoyed with the TV show ‘Ludwig’, but we can recommend an alternative middle-brow, university town set, crossword heavy detective show: ‘Endeavour’
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This week in The Metropolitan, we’ve written a piece considering how we need to consider the audience whenever we create anything. The question is, have we done that this time?
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Tove Jansson’s Moomin books are an excellent example of how children’s books can contain important lessons without be didactic
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This week in The Metropolitan we’re considering Tove Jansson’s ‘Moominvalley in November’, another unexpectedly bleak piece of ‘70s children’s entertainment
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A lot of children’s fantasy books have a kind of fundamental essentialism that can feel somewhat sinister if you stop to think about it.
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British Generation X grew up with a lot of fiction in translation, from Tove Jansson’s Moomins to comedy detection of Agaton Sax
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Tove Jansson’s Moomins can seem like an unlikely source for the international phenomenon they have become
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The end of the month means it’s time for our monthly Mixtape including our playlist of what we’ve been listening to recently, this month, appropriately enough, in a horror story format
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It’s Halloween, so as both a trick and (we hope) a treat, this month’s podcast is a little different: a ghost story written and read by one of our Editors
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This being October, our monthly Mixtape includes a run down of the horror movies we’ve been watching this month, which includes two haunted houses, a haunted lighthouse, a haunted wood and a train with alien zombies on it.
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This month our Sorkin watchalong for paying subscribers reaches the inauspicious address of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
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It’s Mixtape week in The Metropolitan, in which we puzzle at the success of a cruciverbalist TV detective fighting new fangled technology in a hairpiece (6) (Lud-wig. It’s Ludwig.)
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“Don’t Look Now” is definitely director Nicholas Roeg’s film, a masterpiece of building cinematic atmosphere.
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This week we’re rewatching Nichola Roeg’s “Don’t Look Now”, a classic of creepy, uncanny horror.
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The remarkable sex scene “Don’t Look Now”, which intercuts the sex with the couple getting dressed afterwards, is emblematic of how the whole film works.
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This week in The Metropolitan, we’re rewatching “Don’t Look Now”, an exemplary piece of ‘70s filmmaking, devoted to building an unsettling atmosphere rather than a clear narrative, like the contemporaneous “Picnic at Hanging Rock”
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This week we’re rewatching “Don’t Look Now”, a film famous for two scenes, one of which includes Donald Sutherland’s pallid bum.
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