The Voluptuous Manifesto

All work and no play makes Jill a very dull girl

Saturday, 25 May 2024

Beryl Cook/Tom of Finland: a stimulating exhibition

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It might seem a strange idea to stage an exhibition of works by both Beryl Cook (1926-2008) and Touko Laaksonen, who was better known as Tom...
Saturday, 18 May 2024

Love Lies Bleeding: A taut, sexy thriller

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It’s 1989 in a small town in America: Louise ‘Lou’ Langston is the manager of a gym, where she spends an inordinate amount of time unblockin...
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...
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Amanda Kendal
London-based journalist, writer, artist and occasional poet, widowed, but living with a cat. Many interests – this blog covers lots of things. It is 100% personal. Non-PC. No party line. My art is available to buy at www.redbubble.com/people/AmandaKendal/shop
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