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Murakami’s 15th novel retreads a form of magical realism that hasn’t evolvedThere is something inescapably adolescent about the novels of Haruki Murakami. This is most obvious, perhaps, in his multimillion-selling Norwegian Wood, with its angst and melancholy. But it’s also there in the rest of his writing, whether in the mooning after lost loves (see...
A strictly bodyguarded Santa is hijacked in this oddly pitched, CGI-heavy action-adventureAs synthetically festive as an eggnog-flavoured plug-in air freshener, Red One is a cynical, soulless action-adventure that imagines Santa (JK Simmons), codenamed Red One, as a quasi-militaristic elite operative with his own security detail, headed by stony-faced...
Morgan Neville’s novel animated documentary, featuring interviews with the US musician, captures his artistic process, if not the whole story…A documentary portrait of the American music producer and fashion impresario Pharrell Williams, told through the medium of Lego block animation. What at first seems like a quirky gimmick actually works rather...
Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse, Sheffield Holden and Ed Stambollouian’s one-man drama based on a real-life murder in 80s America uses film tropes to great effect – but it plays with the facts tooTwo wrongs don’t make a right, or do they? Ken Rex McElroy was “the town bully”, the things he did, or is said to have done, were bad: arson, assault, cruelty...
In this republished novella from 2000 about a fisherman and his son, the Norwegian writer captures the puzzlement and wonder of the human conditionFew writers working today capture the liminality of life as viscerally as the Norwegian 2023 Nobel prize winner Jon Fosse, and in Morning and Evening, his newly republished 2000 novella (elegantly translated...
Three decades after he first adapted Tchaikovsky’s classic, the choreographer’s reimagining of Swan Lake with an all-male corps is back for an anniversary tour. At rehearsals with the new cast, he and his original team tell the story of a show that stunned audiencesThe choreographer Matthew Bourne rehearses his company in a studio in east London, a...
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