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
Everest (12A)
Directed by Baltasar Kormakur
4/5
WRITERS William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy’s gritty dramatisation of Jon Krakauer’s bestseller Into Thin Air tells the true story of two different expeditions trying to climb the world’s highest mountain in 1996, when freak conditions caused the death of eight mountaineers.
“I am very proud of this film,” director Baltasar Kormakur told us at the screening of his visually impressive film and he’s right to be.
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