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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Film round-up: September 4 2015
This week: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Ricki and the Flash, The Transporter Refuelled, American Ultra and Dope
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
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (12A), directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
4/5
DIVIDED into cheesy chapter headings, there’s nothing twee about this brutally funny and exquisitely written coming-of-age tale about a teenage lad forced to befriend a cancer-stricken classmate.
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