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There has been a wave of essential books and films / documentaries to counter current times. Here are some from 2017.


So You Want to Talk About Race

So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

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In So You Want to Talk About Race, editor-at-large of the Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a...

Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

David Frum

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As the President of the United States, Donald Trump continually voices admiration for brutal...


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Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World

Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World

Women’s March Organizers and Conde Nast

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WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD - SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH - AMERICA FERRERA - ROXANE GAY - ILANA...


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Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

Afua Hirsch

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Where are you really from? You’re British. Your parents are British. You were raised in...


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Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

Valeria Luiselli

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A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands...


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2017 holds plenty of uncertainty, but great sci-fi movies look like a sure thing. Movie Pilot has walked through the biggest sci-fi releases of the year:


Iron Sky: The Coming Race (2019)

Iron Sky: The Coming Race (2019)

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Twenty years after the events of Iron Sky, the former Nazi Moonbase has become the last refuge of...


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Anon (2018)

Anon (2018)

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ANON is set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity. Our private...


Science fiction thriller
Mute (2017)

Mute (2017)

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Berlin. Forty years from today. A roiling city of immigrants, where East crashes against West in a...


Science fiction mystery
Annihilation (2018)

Annihilation (2018)

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When a team of military scientists venture into a zone known as "the shimmer" in order to determine...


Jeff VanderMeer Area X Mutant Cellular biology
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017)

How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017)

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An alien named Zan breaks away from her intergalactic group and finds herself in the London suburb...


Comic science fiction Neil Gaiman
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These epic movies are getting a small-screen spin-off, so you can now binge watch your favourite films to your heart's delight.


Watchmen (2009)

Watchmen (2009)

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In an alternate 1985 America, costumed superheroes are part of everyday life. When one of his former...


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True Lies (1994)

True Lies (1994)

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An international secret agent has to deal with terrorists smuggling weapons into the United States...

Divergent (2014)

Divergent (2014)

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Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) lives in a futuristic world in which society is divided into five...

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Gothic cinema is about drawing the curtains and identifying with outsiders. And with the genre making a comeback, Interview have put this together:


The Lost Boys (1987)

The Lost Boys (1987)

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After moving to a small beach town, brothers Michael and Sam Emerson discover that the area is a...

Beetlejuice (1988)

Beetlejuice (1988)

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A recently-deceased couple adjust to their lives as ghosts and hire a sleazy ghoul to rid their home...


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Twilight (2008)

Twilight (2008)

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A teenager girl falls in love with a male vampire.

The Craft (1996)

The Craft (1996)

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A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice...

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Not necessarily the film that should have won, (we all know Goodfellas should have beaten Dance With Wolves) but films so bad, it's a wonder how they won it at all. Starting with #10.


No Country for Old Men (2007)

No Country for Old Men (2007)

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A hunter named Llewelyn Moss stumbles across the aftermath of a drug deal gone awry. He takes two...

American Beauty (1999)

American Beauty (1999)

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A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his...

The Artist (2011)

The Artist (2011)

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In the 1920s, actor George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a bona fide matinee idol with many adoring...

Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Million Dollar Baby (2004)

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"I don't train girls," growls boxing trainer Frankie Dunn. But something's different about the...

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

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Young Will Shakespeare is the up and coming playwright of the time, but has been disastrously struck...

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As the title says these are the movies that I can't wait to see this year


Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

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A TV actor and his stunt double embark on an odyssey to make a name for themselves in the film...

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

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After the events of Avengers: Endgame, Peter Parker and his friends go on summer vacation to Europe....

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

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Humanity's existence hangs in the balance when the mighty Godzilla collides with Mothra, Rodan and...


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Pet Sematary (2019)

Pet Sematary (2019)

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Louis Creed, his wife Rachel and their two children Gage and Ellie move to a rural house in Maine,...


Stephen King Pet cemetery Matt Greenberg Christopher Young Supernatural horror Graveyards
Us (2019)

Us (2019)

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A mother and a father take their kids to their beach house expecting to enjoy time with friends. But...

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