The Voluptuous Manifesto
All work and no play makes Jill a very dull girl
Saturday 27 April 2024
Brilliant: Salman Rushdie on The Wizard of Oz
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“There’s no place home; there’s no place like home.” It’s an iconic line – and sentiment – from The Wizard of Oz , and certainly from the c...
Sunday 14 April 2024
Evil Does Not Exist – or perhaps it does, in Hamaguchi's enigmatic eco-parable
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Single father Takumi – we’re led to believe he’s a widower – lives with his eight-year-old daughter Hana in the peaceful village of Mizubi...
Saturday 6 April 2024
Just who is the Monster?
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Saori Mugino is a widow, raising her young son Minato and working in a laundry in a small city in the Nagarno region of contemporary Japan. ...
Monday 1 April 2024
Robot Dreams is a an absolute charm
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Dog is a lonely hound living on his own in a third-floor New York apartment in the 1980s. In the evenings, he plays Pong on his own. But one...
Sunday 31 March 2024
American Fiction: A funny satire on literary ghettos and dysfunctional families
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Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison is a black Los Angeles-based professor and writer of acclaimed literary novels that sell poorly. Uptight and abras...
Saturday 30 March 2024
A sweet look at ageing, loneliness, friendship and more
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Milton Robinson is nearing 80, a widower living on his own, with an estranged son, and a daughter who, worried that her father is starting o...
Saturday 23 March 2024
Brighton Rock – brilliance all the way through
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In Brighton at the beginning of March for a few days away – the first time I’ve been there when it didn’t involve work – I suddenly decided ...
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