Terence Rafferty on Godard's "radiant, ambiguous, serenely perverse" classic and it's new revival in New York: The greatness of “Contempt” is that Mr. Godard is not, finally, nostalgic for the…
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Satirist George Saunders speaking at the Brooklyn Academy of Music back in January: He aims to “take his reader by the shirt and fling him; you send him 15 feet…
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A comment from a Guardian over-by-over reader on Steve Harmison's surprisingly candid interview with Nasser Hussain during the First Test: "Is Harmison going to try his nuts off and hold…
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Hilary Swank’s new twin-hanky romance P.S., I Love You is a remarkable achievement. In all my years of cinema-going I don’t think I have ever seen a film get more…
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Regardless of the players being poached, the international careers prematurely ended, the enormous amounts of money distorting the great and wonderful game , whatever... This, dear reader, is the reason…
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The trailer for The Bucket List has been playing for weeks now, inducing groans at every appearance. By collecting a series of Jack Nicholson’s now trademark Jack-isms plus Morgan Freeman’s…
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