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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Film round-up: September 11 2015
Reviews of The Visit, Legend, La Famille Belier, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials and Irrational Man
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
New releases from Javon Jackson, IZE Trio, and Mal Waldron Trio
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 Visit (15), directed by M Night Shyamalan
1/5
SIXTEEN years after The Blair Witch Project made found footage all the rage, M Night Shyamalan has finally jumped on the bandwagon.
But it is too little, too late. Shyamalan fails to employ any groundbreaking effects in this supposedly terrifying story about a brother and sister who are sent to stay for a week with their estranged grandparents at their remote Pennsylvania farm.
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MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
LEO BOIX, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review Dreamers, It Was Just An Accident, Folktales, and Eternity
JAN WOOLF is beguiled by the tempting notion that Freud psychoanalysed Hitler in a comedy that explores the vulnerability of a damaged individual