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Animal Farm review – Andy Serkis’ Orwell adaptation slaughters the classic farmyard satire with sugar ⊖
The passionate allegory on Stalinism is outrageously reduced to happy-ending panto in this defanged animation featuring the voices of Seth Rogen, Laverne Cox and Glenn Close
George Orwell’s Animal Far…
41 days ago
‘I’m setting myself free from shame’: Laverne Cox on her brutal childhood and life as a trans woman in Trump’s America ⊖⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Before Orange Is the New Black made her a star, Cox endured bullying, abuse, harassment and violence. She talks about the bad old days – and her fears they’re on their way back
Two days before she spo…
7 months ago
Fury over family-friendly film adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm that blames capitalism and has a happy ending ○
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The original novel by George Orwell follows a group of farm animals who rebel against their human masters, serving as an allegory for the Russian Revolution of 1917.
11 months ago
‘Animal Farm was my parents’ teamwork’: Orwell’s son on 80 years of the satirical classic ○
Richard Blair on the role his mother played in developing the 1945 political fable – and how it nearly didn’t get published
As the second world war reached its height, the winter of 1943-4 was one of …
16 months ago
The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – ‘It was like fresh air’ ○
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A fascinating, exciting history of how the agency smuggled subversive books across the iron curtain
In, I think, November 1978, I got a call from a rather grand British journalist who’d heard that I w…
17 months ago
Forget Stalin and Trotsky, Animal Farm is a play for our times. Pringles anyone? | Alison Phillips ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
George Orwell’s publishers thought his parable was too specific. They needn’t have worried, 80 years on it’s as salient as ever
“I feel sorry for the old horse,” my son said, drinking his Coke in the …
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