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According to the inverse law of action movie length vs. depth, every too familiar nuance of this nearly three-hour ‘epic’ can be recounted in a couple of breaths: A disabled ex-soldier is sent in to improve relations with an indigenous population who stand in the way of some economically precious natural resource. Inevitably, he grows [...]

Walking around London at present, it’s easy to think that Pop Life is the only exhibition on offer at Tate Modern this winter: Jeff Koons’ silver bunny shines at you from innumerable billboards like a sanitised version of Donnie Darko’s rabbit nemesis desperate for your cash. Were this the case, you might feel ready to [...]

If publishing has leant increasingly on one-line pitches for rising attractions, few can have been as broadly reduced as Magnus Mills. ‘Bus driver turned novelist!’ crowed the press on the arrival of his debut, The Restraint of Beasts. As ever, the truth proved a little less cut and dry. Mills had held a string of [...]