Meg Walters
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Is Glen Powell the New Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Although widely considered the natural successor to Tom Cruise, Glen Powell has a penchant for slightly off-kilter, genre-melding action movies, which connects him more closely to Schwarzenegger, argues Meg Walters.
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The Poignancy of The Last Showgirl’s Underappreciated Artists
If an artist creates something that no one engages with, did they even create? Looking at The Last Showgirl, Inside Llewyn Davis and more, Meg Walters explores the characters fighting for recognition.
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Food Lays the Table for Romance in We Live in Time
One constant in John Crowley’s episodic love story is the preparing and sharing of meals. Culinary experiments bring flavour to the central couple’s relationship, and create enduring, Proustian memories, writes Meg Walters.
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The Substance & the Disturbing Art of Splitting the Self
The Substance, The Beast and Severance are part of a recent trend of works that question the merits of removing undesirable elements of the self for corporate gain, writes Meg Walters.
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How Sci-Fi Has Deepened Today’s Romantic Dramas
From The Beast to Past Lives and Everything Everywhere All at Once, contemporary love stories are increasingly embedding science-fiction concepts into their narratives, says Meg Walters.
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Zendaya & the Tennis Player to Leading Lady Pipeline
Meg Walters considers how Kirsten Dunst, Emma Stone and, now, Zendaya used tennis movies to springboard their careers into new directions.