The book feels like a writer working within his limits and not breaking any new ground, believes KEN COCKBURN
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Reviews of Infamous, The Vigil, Make Up, Summerland and Proxima
PHENOMENAL: Eva Green in Proxima
PRAGYA AGARWAL recommends a collection of drawings that explore the relation of indigenous people to the land in south Asia, Africa and the Caribbean
CHRIS SEALE speaks to Palestinian sound artist BINT MBAREH
MARY CONWAY applauds a brave and timely two hander that explores the difference between intimacy and abuse
ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review The Thing with Feathers, Train Dreams, Sisu: Road to Revenge, and Wicked: For Good
GUILLERMO THOMAS welcomes a biography of WA Domingo, a key figure in the anti-colonial struggle in the Caribbean
Infamous (15)
Directed by Joshua Caldwell
2*
A MODERN-DAY teenage Bonnie and Clyde become a social media sensation with their criminal postings in this morality tale about the evils of courting online fame.
Bella Thorne and Jake Manley play the charismatic young lovers from troubled backgrounds who rob their way across the country.
She is the driving force who just wants to be famous whatever the cost as long as she racks up the “likes” but he has the moral sense to know that killing cops and livestreaming your armed robberies isn’t going to end well.
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