EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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Film Round-Up with Maria Duarte
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
Dad’s Army (PG)
Directed by Oliver Parker
3/5
ALMOST four decades after it ended, the “national treasure” that is Dad’s Army is still being screened on TV.
Whoever thought it was a great idea to turn it into a feature film, when it is so ingrained in the British psyche and the last attempt to do so in 1971 failed miserably, is taking a big risk.
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