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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

Robert Tanitch reviews Medea at National Theatre/Olivier Theatre, London Let’s face it, Medea is never going to win the Mother of the Year Award. Carrie Cracknell’s modern dress production, in a versi ...
It’s never easy with A Touch of Sin

It’s never easy with A Touch of Sin

As with all the arts, the history of cinema is a pattern of imitation, saturation, and reaction.  Few films show this more clearly than 44-year-old Jia Zhangke’s incisive and ambitious, but uneven and ...
Ciphers – a psychological spy thriller

Ciphers – a psychological spy thriller

Spies are easy to recognise. They look just like you. People disappear; people get killed; and, as you well know, some people even get into holdalls and zip up and padlock themselves in and suffocate. ...