The book feels like a writer working within his limits and not breaking any new ground, believes KEN COCKBURN
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MARIA DUARTE endures three hours of overblown Hollywood narcissism and, strangely, recommends it
PRAGYA AGARWAL recommends a collection of drawings that explore the relation of indigenous people to the land in south Asia, Africa and the Caribbean
CHRIS SEALE speaks to Palestinian sound artist BINT MBAREH
MARY CONWAY applauds a brave and timely two hander that explores the difference between intimacy and abuse
ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review The Thing with Feathers, Train Dreams, Sisu: Road to Revenge, and Wicked: For Good
GUILLERMO THOMAS welcomes a biography of WA Domingo, a key figure in the anti-colonial struggle in the Caribbean
Babylon (18)
Directed by Damien Chazelle
LIVING UP to its name, Academy Award winning director Damien Chazelle’s Babylon is an epic depiction of the debauchery, greed and narcissism of Hollywood in the 1920s.
Chazelle explores the dark underbelly of Tinseltown in an ambitious extravaganza that, with a running time of more than three hours, is an assault on the senses, bursting onto the big screen like an unstoppable juggernaut. You can neither catch your breath nor take everything in as Chazelle throws everything into the mix including an elephant, a chicken and a snake.
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