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‘Brave New Love’ Review: Infidelity Isn’t the End in an Unusual, Open-Minded Marital Drama
“I would never fall in love if I was in a good relationship.
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The Guardian
Olga Koch: Fat Tom Cruise review – surefire standup pirouettes through the punchlines
WorldPingPleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh The fast-talking comic considers fraternity culture, gender discrimination and an unrequited crush in a cleverly engineered show From the outset, Olga Koch ’s show Fat Tom Cruise looks like it’s got something meaningful to say.
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‘Men have 30 seconds to get a laugh. Women have 10’: standup Bella Hull on proving herself in rough clubs
She started standup at 17 playing ‘unsafe basements’ and braving revolting hecklers – and even worse headline acts. Now she writes for SNL and is giving Edinburgh a blast of her surreal comedy Comedy isn’t just a career for Bella Hull. It’s a compulsion.
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Sanctuary review – tender, uplifting portrait of love in the Aids crisis
Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Jacob Sparrow’s award-winning two-hander finds hope and humanity amid the prejudice and loss of the 1990s One of the highlights of the Edinburgh international festival is a revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, an era…
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Hollywood Reporter
China Box Office: ‘Spider-Man’ Holds No. 1 as ‘The Odyssey’ Storms Previews
Christopher Nolan's epic took $6.9 million from Imax-only previews before its Friday release, while Sony's superhero sequel pushed its 12-day total past $185 million.
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John Berger: From Life by Tom Overton review – a vibrant biography of the pioneering critic
This multi-layered portrait is a fitting tribute to the man behind Ways of Seeing The cultural critic John Berger was still alive and kicking when he donated his literary archive – heaped boxes of letters and notepads, sketches and scripts – to the B…
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Mermaid Beach review – Wales gets its mermaidcore moment in teen-empowerment tale
When discontented Lily becomes a fantastical sea creature her low-budget transformation is strikingly unconvincing, rather in tune with the whole film Mermaidcore comes to the Welsh coastline in this somewhat stilted family movie about a teenager cal…
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