EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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ALAN FRANK enjoys a film on one of the more bizarre hook-ups ever between showbiz and politics
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
Elvis & Nixon (15)
Directed by Liza Johnson
3/5
AS A film title, Elvis & Me encapsulates almost everything the US holds most dear.
In it, showbusiness takes pole position, with rock icon Elvis Presley taking top billing over one of that country’s most humiliated presidents in this sharp, enjoyable satirical comedy which, perhaps surprisingly for Hollywood, is based on real life.
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