Benedict Cumberbatch gives an honest performance, but this is too self-conscious to challenge or work through loss with same power as the book
This is a painful movie in both the right and the wrong w…
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‘They were so feral’: Cillian Murphy, Tracey Ullman and cast on wild remand school drama Steve ○
In the acclaimed new film about boys written off by the system, Murphy drew on his own past as a troublesome schoolboy while Little Simz played a teacher – and wrote a 90s-style banger of a song
Month…
Steve review – Cillian Murphy is outstanding in ferocious reform school drama ○
Toronto film festival: adapted by Max Porter from his novella Shy and co-starring Little Simz, Emily Watson and Tracey Ullman this brutal but ultimately hopeful story is fiercely affecting
Producer-st…
9 months ago
‘Radical translation’ of Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker prize ○
Translator Deepa Bhasthi’s pick of 12 of Mushtaq’s ‘life-affirming’ tales about women’s lives in southern India becomes the first short story collection to win the £50,000 award
Heart Lamp by Banu Mus…
Channing Tatum and Pedro Pascal write poems for Canadian musician Mustafa’s book ○
Actors contribute to the poet and singer’s anthology exploring ceremony, loss and worship
Actors Channing Tatum and Pedro Pascal have written poems for a new anthology curated by Canadian musician and…
12 months ago
The Thing with Feathers review – Benedict Cumberbatch’s grief horror falls apart ○
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Sundance film festival: An unaffecting adaptation of Max Porter’s acclaimed novella is perched awkwardly between fantasy and reality, failing to convince on either level
The messiness of grief, someth…
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