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When people asked me what I studied at university and I told them, there were often a number of generic reactions. Inevitably, I would be…

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I'm not sure exactly what makes someone a phenomenon, but anyone who has managed to win 62 music awards in two years and has produced a…

Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a very unusual sort of criminal. Along with the pragmatic Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), he is paid to…

‘You can live your life without limitations and become anyone you want to be.’ Disease and injury, ageing and ugliness, death…