Alexander Larman
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- Sep 24, 2026
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Heartbreak makes for the best music (opens the original)
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When the dust finally settles on Beck’s eclectic career, I suspect the albums that will be most fondly remembered are not the cheeky, postmodern, experimental ones, like 1996’s Odelay, but the great trilogy, beautifully arranged and sombrely sung, about the heartache he has suffered. The first of these, Sea Change (2002), explored the demise of a lengthy relationship in raw yet stirring fashion; the Grammy-winning Morning Phase (2014) reunited the same personnel for another collection of songs o
Can childrenâs films beat YouTube? (opens the original)
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To date, the latest Toy Story film has grossed over a billion dollars at the global box office. Not at all bad, if hardly the triumph of the little picture that couldâboth of its predecessors accomplished the same featâbut what made its success at the cinema all the sweeter was that it celebrated the need for invention and play over the brain-sapping tyranny of screens. The quasi-antagonist in the new picture is a perky tablet called Lilypad, or âLilyâ, which promptly replaces the eponym
âThe Odysseyâ is a cinematic marvel (opens the original)
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Christopher Nolan cannot be accused of playing it safe. While many of his peers might have looked for an easy, money-grabbing option after winning the Oscars for best picture and best director, as he did for 2023âs Oppenheimerâthere are James Bond and Star Wars films to direct, after allâhe decided, with suitably quixotic brio, to bring Homerâs epic poem The Odyssey to cinematic life, and in his preferred format of Imax to boot. As is customary with Nolan, he assembled an all-star cast,
That many-talented man: Christopher Nolan (opens the original)
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The first line of Homer’s Odyssey can be roughly translated as, “Tell me, O Muse, of that many-talented man.” This seems apt for Christopher Nolan, the Anglo-American director of the latest screen incarnation, who has deftly steered his way through an extraordinary 28-year career. Beginning with 1998’s Following, a microbudget black-and-white psychological thriller, he has made a series of pictures that have disobeyed all the rules that contemporary Hollywood appears to abide by (number one: dum
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