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THE SINGER, THE SONG and STATE OF CALIFORNIA – Two BBC 4 Music programmes send out confused messages.

NY – BBC 1971. In ‘Heart of Gold’ Neil sings ‘I’m getting old’ – somewhat ironic at the age of 27…..

OUTSIDE EDGE – Violence, Dark Humour and Brilliant Performances abound in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

To say THREE BILBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (director Martin McDonagh, 115 mins) is the most absorbing movie of the year goes nowhere close to doing it justice. It is also in turn the angriest and darkly funny, shockingly violent and intuitive film in recent memory and…
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POST WAR PERIOD – Streep and Hanks deliver in Spielberg’s Vietnam Expose

That the Vietnam War, from an American perspective at least, was a misguided, divisive and ultimately futile exercise is these days common theory. For those subscribing to this perspective, the new Steven Spielberg film THE POST (116 minutes) provides ample…
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