{"id":384509,"date":"2025-08-30T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/384509\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T07:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:00:10","slug":"six-great-reads-the-revenge-porn-helpline-revolutionary-architecture-and-how-netflix-ruined-movies-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/384509\/","title":{"rendered":"Six great reads: the Revenge Porn Helpline, revolutionary architecture and how Netflix ruined movies | Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"
  • 1. Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?Too generic? Netflix Composite: Guardian Design\n

    How did Netflix end up churning out cookie-cutter generic product? To what extent are algorithms and data driving film production \u2013 and, if they aren\u2019t, where are all the so-called algorithm movies coming from, asked Phil Hoad.<\/p>\n

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  • 2. A day with the Revenge Porn Helpline: \u2018You can sense the callers\u2019 desperation\u2019Kate Worthington taking calls at the helpline\u2019s office near Exeter, Devon. Photograph: Jim Wileman\/The Guardian\n

    \u201cBy midday, Jessica has dealt with five calls from highly distressed young women in their 20s, all close to tears or crying at the start of the conversations. She absorbs their alarm calmly, prompting them with questions, making sympathetic noises into her headset as she digests the situation. \u201cAre these images sexual in nature?\u201d she asks the last woman she speaks to before lunch. \u201cDo you want to tell me a bit about what happened?\u201d She begins compiling a tidy set of bullet points in ballpoint pen. \u201cIt\u2019s all right. Take your time.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Intimate image abuse is a crisis in the UK. Amelia Gentleman met staff from this specialist service, demand for which has grown fortyfold since it opened in 2015.<\/p>\n

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  • 3. \u2018There\u2019s something very interesting about boring\u2019: Martin Parr on his life in picturesBenidorm 1997. One of Parr\u2019s photographs. Photograph: Martin Parr\/Magnum Photos\n

    From village cricket matches to surreptitious shots of North Korea, Martin Parr took us through his life and career via 20 of his strange, \u201cboring\u201d, brilliant photographs, including a shot from the opening of the first McDonald\u2019s in Moscow: \u201cThis was the only time I have been allowed to photograph in McDonald\u2019s. I\u2019ve often taken pictures without permission; being thrown out by a faintly embarrassed duty manager gives a certain satisfaction.\u201d<\/p>\n

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  • 4. What connects six disappearances in a picturesque New Zealand town? \u2018Everyone has a theory\u2019The beach at Piha, an hour west of Auckland. Photograph: Fiona Goodall\/The Guardian\n

    On a squally winter night 21 years ago, 25-year-old Iraena Asher vanished from an isolated beach community, one hour west of New Zealand\u2019s largest city, Auckland. Asher\u2019s story is one of New Zealand\u2019s most enduring mysteries and has left a deep wound in Piha, but it is not the only one haunting the community. Five others have disappeared in the region over the past three decades. Now a true-crime documentary is asking questions \u2013 and ruffling feathers, as Eva Corlett, the Guardian\u2019s New Zealand correspondent, reported.<\/p>\n

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  • 5. Arundhati Roy on her fugitive childhood: \u2018My knees were full of scars and cuts \u2013 a sign of my wild, imperfect, fatherless life\u2019Arundhati Roy at a friend\u2019s house near Aymanam, Kerala. Photograph: \u270eSreejith Sreekumar\/The Guardian\n

    When war broke out between India and China, the author and her brother were taken by their mother on a chaotic journey from hill station squat to an eccentric household in Kerala. Would they ever find a safe space?<\/p>\n

    Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  • 6. \u2018It has a heroic, Roman quality\u2019: how Arkansas\u2019s timber university building could revolutionise architectureFuture proof \u2026 the Anthony Timberlands Center, designed by Grafton Architects. Photograph: Tim \u2026\n

    Conceived as a \u201cspider\u2019s web of sticks\u201d, Arkansas\u2019s vast wooden wonder may become a template for environmentally sound buildings. Architecture critic Oliver Wainwright visited the Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation in Fayetteville, where the future is wooden.<\/p>\n

    Oliver also featured alongside all our cultural critics in our comprehensive autumn arts preview<\/a>, taking in everything from Caravaggio and football stadium architecture to Spinal Tap II and Little Simz.<\/p>\n

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