EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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Film round-up: September 11 2015
Reviews of The Visit, Legend, La Famille Belier, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials and Irrational Man
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
The Visit (15), directed by M Night Shyamalan
1/5
SIXTEEN years after The Blair Witch Project made found footage all the rage, M Night Shyamalan has finally jumped on the bandwagon.
But it is too little, too late. Shyamalan fails to employ any groundbreaking effects in this supposedly terrifying story about a brother and sister who are sent to stay for a week with their estranged grandparents at their remote Pennsylvania farm.
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JAN WOOLF is beguiled by the tempting notion that Freud psychoanalysed Hitler in a comedy that explores the vulnerability of a damaged individual
ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review The Ceremony, Eddington, The Life of Chuck, and The Thursday Murder Club