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Saturday, 30 November 2019
A short way into Ben Lerner’s new novel, The Topeka School, Jonathan, a therapist at the Topeka “Foundation”, and one …
Continue reading "Lerner brings poetry to the page"
By Will Hutton
Saturday, 16 November 2019
What happens when you grow old? That’s the question lingering in the nursing home in which Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran …
Continue reading "The Irishman is a worthy coda to Scorsese’s gangster genre"
By Will Hutton
Saturday, 26 October 2019
For bibliophiles, Olivier Assayas’ new film is more aetiology than entertainment – despite its blithe marketing to the contrary. Aspiring …
Continue reading "Non-Fiction review – nothing much happens in this publishing drama"
By Will Hutton
Friday, 16 August 2019
Quentin Tarantino doesn’t like hippies. And it is easy to see why: middle-class runaways swiping credit cards from unsuspecting folk …
Continue reading "Nowhere left to go for Hollywood’s aging Boy Wonder"
By Will Hutton
Friday, 10 May 2019
Celebrated Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s new movie is about Silvio Berlusconi and Loro translated means Them – the voters, consumers, …
Continue reading "Film review: Botched Berlusconi boondoggle"
By Will Hutton
Friday, 19 April 2019
The new Jacques Audiard movie is called The Sisters Brothers and whatever machismo the eponymous brothers might lose sharing a …
By Will Hutton
Friday, 22 February 2019
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Friday, 15 February 2019
No matter how valid a filmmaker’s intentions, I’m often suspicious of films with wholly good protagonists mainly because people rarely …
Continue reading "If Beale Street Could Talk review – finding beauty in an ugly world"
By Will Hutton
Friday, 8 February 2019
If Beale Street Could Talk Director Barry Jenkins’ follow up to Moonlight, Best Film Winner at the 2017 Academy Awards, …
Continue reading "Culture Digest – Beale Street, Barbara Stanwyck & Diane Arbus"
By Will Hutton
