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This week’s film is an early one from Michael Mann, king of the crime genre: THIEF.

This week’s film is the 1973 multiple-Oscar-winning classic THE STING.

This week, our focus turns to the 1969 classic THE ITALIAN JOB.

This week we discuss the landmark historical film BONNIE AND CLYDE. Our reviews are followed by discussions about how this film was a cultural jumping-off point, and how it’s filled with examples of iconoclastically pushing back against society

This week we tackle the original OCEAN’S ELEVEN — over 40 years before the Soderbergh re-make, and set in a very different time.

This week, we begin our heist movies mini-season with the 1955 French film noir RIFIFI.

The final film in our ‘high school’ sub-season is the Olivia Wilde film from last year BOOKSMART.

This week we discuss the 2016 musical-comedy-drama-fantasy (who knows?) SING STREET

This week, in a change to the film we had been going to feature, it’s Emma Watson’s 2012 (post-HP) breakout role.

This week’s film is the 2007 re-boot of the anarchic ST. TRINIAN’S franchise. Post-reviews, we talk about different takes on the male gaze, on this film as a period piece, and on the way in which such films can be heightened versions of universal truths.