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Don't Miss: Netflix's Oxygen, a sci-fi thriller with a shocking twist

5 May 2021

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Oxygen, Alexandre Aja’s sci-fi thriller, is the story of a woman with amnesia (Mélanie Laurent) who is trapped in a cryogenic chamber. Her oxygen is running out and she will survive only if she remembers who she is. On Netflix from 12 May.

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Crooked Cats tell their own bloody tales in anthropologist Nayanika Mathur’s study of how big cats – tigers, leopards and lions – come to prey on humans. Ecological collapse is an important reason why such attacks occur, but is it the whole story?

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Cosmos: Reverse perspective looks at Earth from space through collages and graphics, capturing the changes we have lived through since Yuri Gagarin’s first orbit. Online from Pushkin House until 18 May.

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