Readers of last week's column will know that I am currently overseas on a quest, a mission - a pursuit if you prefer - hoping to discover a new kind…
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We review Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy in Hysteria and German WWII period piece movie Wunderkinder. Plus Dan reports on his first Telluride Film Festival, four days of movies in…
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Anyone wondering whether the great Pedro Almodóvar had lost some of his edge at the ripe old age of 62 should immediately check out his new film The Skin I…
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We’re born alone and we die alone and in between nothing goes according to plan and the people around us are mostly unreliable and occasionally malevolent. Meanwhile, God either doesn’t…
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You’ll often find me railing against the Hollywood machine in these pages - the lifeless and cynical, the focus-grouped and beta-tested, the bandwagon jumping and the shark jumping - so…
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The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on Christmas Day in 1979. They remained in the country, brutally suppressing the local resistance, until they were forced to leave in 1989: almost ten…
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