CATHERINE STEEL relishes a compelling novel about Augustus’s right hand man, but misses the politics, the cultural shifts, and more detail about his restoration of Rome
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TONY BURKE speaks to JOEL McIVER, co-author of the biography of bluesman John Mayall
A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
New releases from Javon Jackson, IZE Trio, and Mal Waldron Trio
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
EWAN CAMERON marvels at the impossible ambition, realised with dreamlike finesse of translating Italo Calvino to the stage
The Reunion (15)
Directed by Anna Odell
3/5
SWEDISH conceptual artist Anna Odell’s take on how to wreak retribution on your former school bullies at a class reunion is an audacious and at times pretty uncomfortable watch.
Odell storms into the reunion party and confronts the classmates from two decades previously who made her life hell for nine years and who remember their school days very differently to her.
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