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12 days ago

Rosebush Pruning review – dysfunctional rich family move in strange circles ⊕⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Jamie Bell and Elle Fanning lead a starry cast in this clumsy satire that provides little fascination in a wealthy family’s suffocating lives

Since Jesse Armstrong’s Succession and Emerald Fennell’s S…

48 days ago

Award-winning screenwriter tells Desert Island Discs that success has not silenced self-doubt

The award-winning screenwriter Jesse Armstrong has said a writers’ room can feel like “walking on the moon…

7 months ago

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days

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He is the master of ripped-from-the-headlines drama, a writer who skewers the billionaire class. As Mountainhead takes him into new territory, he talks about his nuanced view of the world’s richest m…

8 months ago

Transhumanism has long propelled films from Metropolis to The Matrix. But Jesse Armstrong’s billionaire satire isn’t sci-fi fantasy. Nor is the ‘robotic Grampa’ Disney’s granddaughter so despises

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Tech-bro satire Mountainhead is an insufferable disappointment ○

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Jesse Armstrong’s rushed Succession follow-up might be heavy on of-the-moment buzzwords, but it’s too smug to make any real point

Picture this: a group of very rich people gather at an ostentatiously …

The Succession writer tells the Hay Festival about his fascination with who holds power in society.

9 months ago

Weapons-grade zingers come thick and fast in this chamber piece about four plutocrats on a weekend in a lodge that goes awry when the planet descends into chaos

Jesse Armstrong has returned with what …

10 months ago

Billionaires, played by Steve Carell and Ramy Youssef, meet amid an international crisis in HBO’s of-the-moment satire

A summit of influential male billionaires is underway in the first teaser trailer…

12 months ago

An explosive succession trial and an astonishing interview with one of Rupert’s sons have exposed the paranoia and hatred at the heart of global media’s most powerful family. This could get messy…

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