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Why James Bond themes, good, bad and ugly, have a special place in our culture
Billie Eilish’s eponymous theme for the new Bond film, No Time To Die, was released last week, to surprised murmurs of approval.
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Iain Martin
Leopoldstadt review – wise, weary and heartbreakingly sad
A poll the other day revealed that more than nine out of ten members of Momentum, the pro-Corbyn “party within a party” in Labour, believe that…
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Iain Martin
Educating Rita 40 years on – few plays have enjoyed such a rich afterlife
Educating Rita, Willy Russell’s great, wise play about the value of education and class, is now 40 years old.
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Iain Martin
Dickens adaptations could do with more of Iannucci’s joie de vivre
As the old saying doesn’t quite go, you wait all year for an adaptation of Charles Dickens, and then three come along at once.
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Iain Martin
Sex Education series 2 review – splendidly bingeworthy
Something that American television and cinema has always done much better than the British equivalent is the high school comedy.
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Iain Martin
Elton John’s Me – hilarious, jaw-droppingly candid memoir
In our increasingly dull and sanitised age, where our rock and pop idols tend to be the privately educated milquetoast children of investment bankers…
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Iain Martin
Jojo Rabbit review – well-executed very serious farce
Making a comedy about the Nazis is a bold and immensely dangerous undertaking.
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Iain Martin
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