Film of the week: Shayda

Noora Niasari’s feature debut, aided by one of the best performances of the year, effectively unpacks a difficult subject without emotional manipulation

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Book review: What about men?

Comedian and commentator Caitlin Moran follows her humorous feminist manifesto with a tongue-in-cheek look at the strange world of men.

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Film of the week: The Creator plus ticket giveaway

Gareth Edwards escapes the Star Wars Universe to bring a new, original and exciting sci-fi romp aimed to please everyone yearning for new original stories….

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Book review: Night Side of the River

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Book review: The Wager

A mostly forgotten maritime misadventure is transformed into a newly thrilling saga of hubris, nemesis and treachery on the high seas

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Film of the week: A Haunting in Venice

Kenneth Branagh’s third Poirot feature is a fun gothic whodunit that gets to elevate the original story but, more importantly, liberate the filmmaker from his…

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Film of the week: Scrapper

An impressive feature debut, Scrapper charmingly merges the British tradition of ‘kitchen sink drama’ with magic realism.

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Book review: Tom Lake

Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake is a delightful tale of a mother recounting a long-ago romance to her adult daughters 

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Film of the week: Past Lives

Celine Song’s feature debut is a worthy successor of Before Sunrise and Lost In Translation. Heartbreaking and beautifully acted, but it is Song’s direction that elevates…

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Book review: The Three of Us

The Three of Us by British-Nigerian writer Ore Agbaje-Williams is a comedy of manners and much more, touching on truths about friendships, expectations around marriage,…

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