19 June 2024

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DIVERTIMENTO: A PAIN IN THE ARTS

 

Starting with Ravel’s Bolero and finishing with it, DIVERTIMENTO is the best use of this piece of classical music in a motion picture since Allegro Non Troppo.

Classical symphonic music is everything for 17-year-old Zahia Ziouani and her twin

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THE CONVERT: A COLONIAL OSCOPY

Gunpowder and God. Arguably, mankind is the leasor of two evils.

Firearms and deity certainly fuel the cruel in THE CONVERT, Lee Tamahori’s latest excellent foray into toxic masculinity.

New Zealand in the 1830s is a Māori world, dominated by

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THE PROMISED LAND: BASTARDEN

We’ve had the tidal wave of Nordic noir, now brace yourself for an epic tale of a Scandi Western in THE PROMISED LAND.

Starring the marvellous Mads Mikkelsen, THE PROMISED LAND is a sweeping saga set at the end of

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