Category: Culture
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Drop Valentine’s Day. Celebrate Lupercalia
As the saccharine celebrations of Valentine’s Day fade, with its bounty of chocolates, roses and gushing Instagram posts, this morning’s dawn brought on another festival which celebrates love in a very different way. Falling on 15 February, Lupercalia has its origins in Ancient Rome. As with all such things, many of the finer details depend…
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The signet ring: Wearing TV’s latest thirst trap accessory
It seems that every popular streaming show today must have at least one look or accessory which sends viewers swooning. The Bear has Jeremy Allen White’s t-shirt. Normal People had Connell’s chain. Indeed, Bridgerton and Rege Jean Page managed to make spoons a topic of conversation for a while
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Spoiler rules for 2024
With streaming services muddying the water, it seemed like time to update my Spoiler Laws
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2023: The List
This year I decided to go back through the diaries, notes and journal entries from the last 12 months and pick out a few highlights…
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Don’t read my blog, read theirs
Over many years, and many abortive attempts to run a blog, I have learned one thing very clearly: an awful lot of writing is theft. This is my second iteration of Millennial Gent, and the fourth blog I have tried to run since I first started writing one about 20 years ago. In that time,…
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Christmas Movie Bingo
It is that time of the year, when every television channel and streaming service is filled to bursting with one thing: Christmas films. But how different are they all?
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Christmas Film Advent Calendar
There are 24 days until Christmas – and we are going to be digging out a slice of festive film goodness every day. But these are not just your standard heavy hitters, oh no, we are going in search of saccharine sensations and Christmas cringes. Each film will be given a Christmas Tree rating to…
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