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‘The crude language of Maga folks’: Joyce Carol Oates criticises Emily Wilson’s attack on Nolan’s Odyssey

silverguide.site – The novelist suggested Wilson should have been ‘a wee bit more thoughtful and respectful’ towards a film-maker who may have helped her book sales…
‘The crude language of Maga folks’: Joyce Carol Oates criticises Emily Wilson’s attack on Nolan’s Odyssey
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‘Kind of like a fairy tale’: documentary tells the unusual tale of Flaco the Owl

silverguide.site – Wild Inside looks back on the incredible year when an escaped zoo owl managed to bring New Yorkers together…
‘Kind of like a fairy tale’: documentary tells the unusual tale of Flaco the Owl
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Tony review – knives out in tasty reheat of Anthony Bourdain’s memoir

silverguide.site – Dominic Sessa stars as a conceited yet vulnerable young chef alongside Antonio Banderas – but the feelgood factor is compromised by what we know of the author…
Tony review – knives out in tasty reheat of Anthony Bourdain’s memoir
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Billy Liar review – Tom Courtenay is superb in classic study of a young man and his quixotic dreams

silverguide.site – Courtenay gives a beautiful performance as the undertaker’s clerk who nurses preposterous ambitions. But the film is too quick to surrender them…
Billy Liar review – Tom Courtenay is superb in classic study of a young man and his quixotic dreams
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Personal Problems review – an exhilarating lo-fi epic of Black working-class life in 80s New York

silverguide.site – The director of Ganja & Hess, Bill Gunn, turns analogue video and improvisation into a work of startling intimacy, humour and emotional force…
Personal Problems review – an exhilarating lo-fi epic of Black working-class life in 80s New York
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The Devil’s Mouth review – Amazon’s shark thriller gives us just about enough to chew on

silverguide.site – A group of holidaying friends get trapped in a cave system with a bull shark in a solidly entertaining b-movie lifted by a toxic central friendship…
The Devil’s Mouth review – Amazon’s shark thriller gives us just about enough to chew on
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Solo Sunny review – a rueful East German gem of ambition, loneliness and faded dreams

silverguide.site – Konrad Wolf’s 1980 drama follows a singer trying to escape the drab compromises of GDR life, capturing the melancholy of thwarted ambition with warmth and wit…
Solo Sunny review – a rueful East German gem of ambition, loneliness and faded dreams
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Director Mike Leigh likely to retire after his next film due to illness

silverguide.site – Film-maker’s drama Tender Loving Care ‘likely’ his final one as he manages myositis, a disease affecting immune system…
Director Mike Leigh likely to retire after his next film due to illness
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The Killer: without John Woo’s gun fu classic, Hollywood action films would be far more dull

silverguide.site – The 1989 Hong Kong thriller established Woo as one of the greats, with its explosive gun fights, high-speed car chases and an incorruptible hero…
The Killer: without John Woo’s gun fu classic, Hollywood action films would be far more dull
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Lesvia review – the rise and fall of an amazing lesbian community on Sappho’s actual island home

silverguide.site – Director Tzeli Hadjidimitriou grew up on Lesbos, and her elegant debut feature explores how the Greek poet’s birthplace became a hub for lesbians…
Lesvia review – the rise and fall of an amazing lesbian community on Sappho’s actual island home
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Just when you thought it was safe … the shark movie is back for more

silverguide.site – Shark Week arrives in an overstuffed period for the film genre even if nothing will ever rival the greatest of them all…
Just when you thought it was safe … the shark movie is back for more
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Tinsman Road review – found footage haunted horror as a film-maker searches for his sister haunts

silverguide.site – The soundscape of Robbie Banfitch’s latest low-budget film is key to the creepy mood, in a story of a disappeared girl and her brother’s attempts to find out more…
Tinsman Road review – found footage haunted horror as a film-maker searches for his sister haunts
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Wham! 10 Days in China review – pop meets politics in George and Andrew’s great leap east

silverguide.site – The duo’s groundbreaking 1985 tour reveals a strange collision of pop stardom and communism, a re-edit of Lindsay Anderson’s efforts that got him fired…
Wham! 10 Days in China review – pop meets politics in George and Andrew’s great leap east
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‘She wasn’t acting, she wanted to live it’: how a fake pregnancy resulted in the wildest true crime film of the year

silverguide.site – Netflix documentary A Child of My Own tells the stranger-than-fiction story of a hospital worker who went to extreme lengths in her efforts to become a mother. Its director recounts their meetings in a Mexican prison…
‘She wasn’t acting, she wanted to live it’: how a fake pregnancy resulted in the wildest true crime film of the year
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My thrilling Odyssey on BBC Sounds | Brief letters

silverguide.site – Brief letters: Simon Armitage’s Odyssey | Preventing lobbying | Surviving obituaries | Cream cracker lunch | DIY decision…
My thrilling Odyssey on BBC Sounds | Brief letters
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David Jonsson: the London rising star handpicked to be the new Black Panther

silverguide.site – Jonsson has come a long way from east London’s Docklands, winning accolades on stage and screen…
David Jonsson: the London rising star handpicked to be the new Black Panther
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‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster

silverguide.site – Wilson, whose work on Homer’s epic was praised by Nolan, said his film was grandiose and superficial with ‘nothing convincing to say’…
‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster
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The Phantom Pain of Rojava review – Kurdish veterans of the war against IS tell story of courage and survival

silverguide.site – Maryam Ebrahimi’s documentary about a home for survivors of the war in northern Syria is tender, gentle and incredibly moving…
The Phantom Pain of Rojava review – Kurdish veterans of the war against IS tell story of courage and survival
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Joyce Carol Oates thinks the 90s TV adaptation of The Odyssey is the best. I beg to differ | Stuart Heritage

silverguide.site – The Hallmark Channel’s ropey version of The Odyssey is going viral for its star-studded cast. Christopher Nolan’s film only looks better by comparison…
Joyce Carol Oates thinks the 90s TV adaptation of The Odyssey is the best. I beg to differ | Stuart Heritage
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Unauthorised version of Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey shared on X

silverguide.site – A high-quality pirated version of the summer’s hit movie was leaked on Elon Musk’s X platform and viewed more than 3m times before being removed…
Unauthorised version of Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey shared on X
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