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Andy Hedgecock
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Film of the Week / 20 August 2026
20 August 2026

Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation

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Cinema / 13 August 2026
13 August 2026

MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street

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Film of the week / 6 August 2026
6 August 2026

ANDY HEDGECOCK is charmed by a skilful adaptation of Tove Jansson’s lyrical portrait of three generations of a family, overcoming grief

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Books / 3 July 2026
3 July 2026

ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an entertaining, useful guide to the threats and promises of mathematical rationality

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Science fiction and Fantasy / 26 May 2026
26 May 2026

Do frozen colonists carry the virus of empire? Why is monstrosity a great way to describe capital? Was God a dustman?

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Film of the week / 21 May 2026
21 May 2026

ANDY HEDGECOCK is astonished by a portrait of contemporary Greece, complete with political protest, organised crime and people trafficking, told from the point of view of — wait for it — runaway poultry

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Books / 15 May 2026
15 May 2026

ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an effective and entertaining overview of those who see erroneous ideas as self-evident truths

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Books / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026

ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart

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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

Olive Gray as Maria and Slavko Sobin as Vlad in Surviving Earth / Pic IMDb
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