EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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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
Paper Planes (U)
Directed by Robert Connolly
4/5
Three cheers for co-writer director Robert Connolly for a charming, funny children’s adventure designed to delight uncynical youngsters and, happily, prove a pleasure for all too frequently unkindly “entertained” accompanying adults.
The 12-year-old hero Dylan, sweetly and convincingly played by Ed Oxenbould, lives in rural New South Wales with his father Jack (Sam Worthington) who, having lost his wife in a car accident five months previously, is traumatised, doesn’t work and simply sleeps or watches TV.
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