ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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Film round-up: May 25, 2023
Maria Duarte reviews of Sisu, Master Gardener, Hypnotic and The Little Mermaid
NAZI NEMESIS: Jorma Tommili in Sisu
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Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
Sisu (15)
Directed by Jalmari Helander
★★★★
SET in Lapland in 1944, a lone prospector wages war on evil Nazis who steal his gold in this relentless and violent but surprisingly satisfying revenge thriller by writer-director Jalmari Helander.
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