Chris Tryhorn

1. Article · Jul 27, 2026 · Chris Tryhorn

   ‘I thought it didn’t stand a cat’s chance in hell’: Andrew Ridgeley on Wham’s surreal trip to China (opens the original)

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   Four decades after he and George Michael became the first western pop act to tour the country, Ridgeley recalls silent gigs, awkward embassy receptions – and the ‘bloody ludicrous’ hiring of Lindsay Anderson as director Wham! special – read about George Michael’s great lost superstar duets album There has always been something surreal about Wham!’s 1985 trip to China. George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley looked like alien visitors on the streets of Beijing, their bouffant hair and flam

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2. Article · Jul 20, 2026 · Chris Tryhorn

   Sex, beds and grisly executions: what Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey changed, invented – and left out (opens the original)

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   From missing scenes and characters to a brand new ending, the director has taken some artistic liberties with Homer’s epic poem Peter Bradshaw’s five-star review and a less enthused classicist’s take Will women also enjoy Nolan’s Odyssey? Christopher Nolan interviewed Why shooting on occupied land feels like a betrayal Turning a 12,000-line poem that takes a day to read aloud into a three-hour film was always going to require some pruning. So it has proved with Christopher Nolan’s The

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