PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
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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
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The Bard hands out medals for his Edinburgh campaign and urges us to support The Men They Couldn’t Hang
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THE RECENT Queer Art exhibition at Tate Britain in London pays a much-needed tribute to Jamaican dancer and choreographer Berto Pasuka, who founded Les Ballet Negres in 1946. Not only the first company in Britain to be composed of black dancers, it was also the first to offer what fellow dancer Richie Riley later described as “in every shape and form, ballet in a black idiom.”
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