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Film review: 'Let's Be Evil'
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
Let’s Be Evil (15)
Directed by Martin Owen
The sole scary sequence of this British-made chiller came at the end. A stentorian voice suddenly shouted — I paraphrase — to get the hell out of there as quickly as possible using the stairs, not the lifts.
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