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Andy Hedgecock
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Books / 8 May 2026
8 May 2026

ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an accessible - and optimistic - take on our relationship to new technology

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Film of the week / 23 April 2026
23 April 2026

ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a gripping and touching drama, based on a true story, about a Serbian refugee rebuilding his life in Bristol

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Film of the week / 26 March 2026
26 March 2026

ANDY HEDGECOCK is disappointed by a survey of George Orwell’s life and literary obsessions that is mesmerised by its own baroque technique

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Film of the week / 19 March 2026
19 March 2026

ANDY HEDGECOCK peers into the US psyche to find deluded ambition, toxic aggression and an obsession with fame

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Film of the Week / 5 March 2026
5 March 2026

ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends an unflinching analysis of the billionaire class that celebrates collective resistance to it

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Film of the Week / 12 February 2026
12 February 2026

ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends an unflinching examination of the chaos and suffering wrought by US foreign policy, told through the story of a child’s simple quest

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Book Review / 10 February 2026
10 February 2026

ANDY HEDGECOCK is enthralled by a collection of South Korean ghost stories where human behaviour is as chilling as any spectral activity

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Books / 30 January 2026
30 January 2026

ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era

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Books / 13 January 2026
13 January 2026

ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes a graphic portrayal of the corrosive impact of commodification, but can’t sympathise with the characters

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Best of 2025 / 5 December 2025
5 December 2025

ANDY HEDGECOCK picks out his cultural highlights of 2025

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Books / 11 November 2025
11 November 2025

ANDY HEDGECOCK enjoys an unusual collection of stories that refract class consciousness through the flexible lens of folk horror

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Film of the Week / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025

ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a cinematic glimpse of the role of the British in establishing the zionist state