CATHERINE STEEL relishes a compelling novel about Augustus’s right hand man, but misses the politics, the cultural shifts, and more detail about his restoration of Rome
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TONY BURKE speaks to JOEL McIVER, co-author of the biography of bluesman John Mayall
A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
EWAN CAMERON marvels at the impossible ambition, realised with dreamlike finesse of translating Italo Calvino to the stage
The 33 (12A)
Directed by Patricia Riggen
3/5
DIRECTOR Patricia Riggen’s heart is undoubtedly in the right place in creating this visually effective reconstruction of the increasingly desperate race against time to rescue 33 miners trapped underground in a collapsed mine in Chile.
But reconstructing the 2010 disaster, covered in real life and real time on television, unavoidably creates a major dramatic problem in a feature film.
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