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MARIA DUARTE and LEO BOIX review Little Trouble Girls, Big Boys, The Roses, and Caught Stealing
MARY CONWAY admires a study of environmental idealism that aspires to Chekhov but is arrested in a deluge of middle-class opinion
ANGUS REID questions whether a human scriptwriter is behind the multiple plagiarisms of Disney’s much-lauded and vacuous extension of the Alien franchise
ANDREW FILMER welcomes the reopening of Glasgow’s landmark theatre after a seven-year transformation
CHRIS SEARLE encourages you to go hear a landmark performance, and introduces some of the musicians
How To Blow Up a Pipeline (15)
Directed by Daniel Goldhaber
★★★★
“ANYTIME anyone has challenged authority they’ve called it terrorism … if the American empire calls us terrorists then we’re doing something right” insists a group of 20-something environmental activists in this explosive part heist part eco-thriller which explores the climate crisis.
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