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Backrooms: why being trapped in the film’s endless corridors feels a lot like modern life

Beneath the horrifying labyrinth, Backrooms tells a familiar story of foreclosed futures, precarity and frustrated aspirations.

02.06.2026 5

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James Cronin

Plastic packaging could be a greater sin than food waste

Damaging as it is, food waste has an end point: it decomposes, breaks down, and returns to the soil. Plastic packaging persists indefinitely.

30.10.2025 7

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James Cronin