… on cinematic multiversesCan audiences handle the cinematic multiverse? Continue reading…
Streaming: the best of the Edinburgh film festival 2021
The festival returns with live screenings, but will continue to offer an online edition, with gems from Norway and Iran, plus a 30-year stop-motion passion projectAs the film festival circuit returns to semi-normal – Cannes wrapped a delayed but succes…
Can of wormholes: why have blockbuster franchises become so complicated?
With multiple timelines, planets and even Batmen, are the new frontiers of comic-book films works of genius – or confusing cash-ins?Modern Toss on cinematic multiversesFranchise movie-making is a little like quantum physics. It begins with one simple e…
Strictly Come Dancing 2021: the contestants – ranked
Robert Webb, AJ Odudu, Tom Fletcher and Nina Wadia are among the celebrities getting their dancing shoes on for Strictly. But who will succeed … and who on earth is Tilly Ramsay?The 2021 Strictly Come Dancing line-up has been unveiled in full, which ca…
Speak, Silence by Carole Angier review – a remarkable biography
The first major study of revered author and academic WG Sebald reveals an obsessive and brilliant mindWG Sebald’s mother Rosa once said that her son had been born without a skin, so that he was unable to protect himself from being overwhelmed by the su…
Avni Doshi on summer in Mumbai
The Burnt Sugar author remembers summer 2007, when her grandmother arrived to help her set up home – and teach her some life lessons• Read other authors on their memorable urban summersShe arrives with a small suitcase and several jute bags filled with…
TV tonight: Michael Johnson meets our star Paralympians
The US champion sprinter begins a new series interviewing the likes of Ellie Simmonds and Kadeena Cox. Plus: Suggs’ life story. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading…
東京と鎌倉の間のハイパーオブジェクト：SZ Newsletter VOL.95［ENVIRONMENT］
環境哲学者ティモシー・モートンは、わたしたちの世界に実在しながら人間的な尺度を超えた存在を「ハイパーオブジェクト」と定義した。そのひとつは、東京と鎌倉の間、日常のすぐ隣りにサイバーパンク的なパラレルワールドとして拡がっている。SZメンバーシップの今週のテーマ「ENVIRONMENT」について、都市でも自然でもない第三項としてのハイパーオブジェクトを提示する編集長からのニュースレター。
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Deceit review – Rachel Nickell drama probes the ethics of entrapment
Niamh Algar puts in a phenomenal performance in this four-parter about the controversial undercover police operation which followed Nickell’s death, and events that beggar beliefIt is an indicator of almost everything that was wrong with the Rachel Nic…
Grammy-winning folk artist Nanci Griffith dies at 68
The singer-songwriter known for songs such as Love at the Five and Dime and From a Distance has died with a cause unknownNanci Griffith, the Grammy-winning folk singer known for her literary songwriting, has died at age 68. Her management confirmed her…