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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cover of Dark Corners by Megan Goldin

Book review: Dark Corners

A true-crime podcaster does battle with the dark world of social media influence

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Film of the week – Godland

On his third feature, Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason steps up his game in a beautiful but bleak meditation on the destructiveness of masculinity against an…

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Book review: Traced

Traced by award-winning Australian author Catherine Jinks marries COVID-19 lockdown issues with a terrifying tale of domestic abuse.

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Film of the week: Asteroid City

For his eleventh feature, Wes Anderson uses all the tricks to prove he’s not losing his sentimental and visual playfulness.

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