PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
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by Paul Birtill
LEO BOIX applauds an audacious, self-questioning film about grief, friendship and film-making
MARY CONWAY admires a brave and topical study of Armageddon that is, unfortunately, unable to come to a conclusion
ANDY HEDGECOCK, JAMES WALSH and JAMIE BRITTON review Hanging by a Wire, I Want Your Sex, The Pout-Pout Fish, and Rise of the Foot Soldier: Retribution
Chris Searle speaks to US pianist RAN BLAKE
The Bard hands out medals for his Edinburgh campaign and urges us to support The Men They Couldn’t Hang
Above all else he desperately
wants to be prime minister –
wants the top job with all the
trimmings and trappings of the
highest office in the land –
Chequers, Number 10, portrait
on the wall, trips to America
to meet leaders, a mention in the
history books, a peerage. But he
won’t do anything, nothing at all,
you’ll barely notice a difference.
All that will change will be some
furniture in 10 Downing Street.
Paul Birtill is well-known as a Liverpool poet on the circuit. His most recent poetry collections are Bad News and All’s Well that Ends, both published by Wrecking Ball Press.
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