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- Sep 21, 2026
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Blu-ray: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (opens the original)
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We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. Taika Waititi’s 2016 hit Hunt for the Wilderpeople operates on multiple levels, its blend of odd-couple comedy and adventure nicely sustained. Julian Dennison’s Ricky Baker looks like a wrong’un from the very start, a sullen foster child dismissed by his social worker a
Blu-ray: Billy Liar (opens the original)
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We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. Repeated viewings of Billy Liar remind one that it's pretty bleak in parts, a study of mendacity, infidelity and familial dysfunction in a grim northern town. Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley pops up in one of this disc's bonus features and points out that if you were to tak
Blu-ray: Oh! What a Lovely War (opens the original)
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We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. Joan Littlewood’s stage production of Oh! What a Lovely War was a huge success when premiered at Stratford East in 1963. Loosely based on a documentary-style BBC radio musical, it showed the key events of World War I portrayed by a commedia dell'arte troupe taking on mu
Blu-ray: Jiří Trnka - Puppet Master (opens the original)
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We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. Czech animator Jiří Trnka’s rise to international fame mirrored that of his contemporary Karel Zeman, both filmmakers producing work as sophisticated as anything from the Disney studios but utterly different in style. Trnka (1912-1969) was a polymath, a gifted puppet ma
Blu-ray: Toomorrow (opens the original)
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We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. “Your civilisation is young but controlled by minds which are old,” says one of the alien Alphoids in Toomorrow to the four young musicians beamed aboard his spacecraft. He’s also hinting at one of the film’s problems; Toomorrow often feels like it’s been helmed by a cr
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