GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Film round-up: February 15, 2024
Hideous violence, food porn, funk legends and incomprehensible trips; MARIA DUARTE reviews The Promised Land, The Taste of Things, Getting it Back: the story of Cymande, and Eureka
FUNK LEGENDS: The return of Windrush generation band Cymande
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
The Promised Land (15)
Directed by Nikolaj Arcel
★★★★
IN 1755, an impoverished war hero aims to conquer and cultivate the harsh and barren Danish heath in the name of the king in exchange for a royal title and a manor in this slow-burning yet brutal period drama directed and co-written by Nikolaj Arcel.
Mads Mikkelsen delivers another searing performance as the brooding Captain Ludvig Kahlen, the illegitimate son of a wealthy landowner and his housemaid, who is determined to obtain what was denied him by birth.
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