To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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A perturbing allegory of the colonising of Africa
Dune is a prophetic tale about the environmental apocalypse that boundless Western greed has subjected the Earth to in 21st century, writes OLI MOULD
PREDICTABLE NOMEN OMEN: ‘Vadimir’ (Dave Bautista) as leader of House Harkonnen
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If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
DIRECTOR Denis Villeneuve’s most recent sci-fi epic is the latest attempt to tell the story of Frank Herbert’s acclaimed 1965 novel, Dune.
The film is set millennia in the future when the galaxy is ruled by a class of family houses.
Each house battles for control over the most valuable resource in the galaxy, “spice” — a powerful hallucinogen that also happens to power interstellar travel.
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