CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
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The Batman
MARIA DUARTE is impressed by the latest incarnations of Gotham City’s shadowy superhero and his band of nemeses, in their murkiest outing to date
ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
In verse and polemic, the bard points out that he is a poet and musician, not a political party
MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
The Batman (15)
Directed by Matt Reeves
“I’M vengeance,” warns Batman to a gang of Joker lookalikes after beating up one of them to within an inch of his life, as he sets the tone for the darkest and most troubled incarnation of the caped crusader to date — if that’s possible.
Co-writer-director Matt Reeves’s reimagining is a deliciously sinister neonoir detective murder mystery in which Batman (Robert Pattinson) teams up with Lieutenant James Gordon (Jeffrey Wright), in his pre-Commissioner days, in the hunt for sadistic serial killer the Riddler (a disturbing and spine-chilling Paul Dano), who is murdering key political figures in Gotham.
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