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21Mar

Culture Tip: x + y

Jacqueline Palmer

autism, culture, films

Soul

Morgan Matthews' film x + y sensitively explores the world of autistic teenager Nathan; a film for anyone who has ever felt on the outskirts.
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18Feb

The Psychology of 50 Shades of Grey

Jacqueline Palmer

culture, films, psychology, sex

Mind

Jacqueline Palmer explores the psychology of controversial best-seller 50 Shades of Grey and the potentially damaging messages the now-movie conveys.
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06Feb

Culture Tip: Still Alice

Jacqueline Palmer

culture, films

Soul

A difficult topic, early-onset Alzheimer's is sensitively and touchingly explored in film 'Still Alice', starring Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart.
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30Jan

Culture Tip: Whiplash

Jacqueline Palmer

culture, films, music, perfectionism

Soul

The film Whiplash examines the pressures of perfection in producing music
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16Jan

Culture Tip: Birdman

Jacqueline Palmer

culture, films

Soul

A review of dark, comic satire Birdman, starring Michael Keaton, Edward Norton and Emma Stone.
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20Dec

Culture Tip: Electricity

Jacqueline Palmer

culture, films

Soul

Jacqueline Palmer, therapist and film critic, takes a look at Agyness Deyn's star turn in creative film: Electricity, an exploration of epilepsy.
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28Nov

Culture Tip: The Homesman

Jacqueline Palmer

culture, films

Soul

Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones star in The Homesman, a powerful film which addresses feminism and mental health issues.
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03Nov

The Runners: Life on the Move

Camilla Nicholls

exercise, films, society, wellbeing

Soul

Camilla Nicholls on short film The Runners, which reveals the philosophers in all of us ordinary people.
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24Oct

Gone Girl: I Blame the Parents

Camilla Nicholls

books, family, films, marriage, psychology

Mind

Camilla Nichols analyses the parent-child relationship in David Fincher's recent hit release Gone Girl, staring Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck
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21Feb

Culture Tip: Her

Louise Chunn

films

Soul

A charming film, Her imagines a man falling in love with a computer operating system
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