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News of the World
MARIA DUARTE watches Tom Hanks’s first Western to date, whose social and political subtexts resonate today
The bard joins the Carnival Against Fascism, which summer fun sends him down Memory Lane
FIONA O’CONNOR is bowled over by a stunning Welsh language drama
MARIA DUARTE and MICHAL BONCZA review Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day, Familiar Touch, Nino, and Toy Story 5
MATTHEW HAWKINS explores the initiatives proposed by HEALING ARTS SCOTLAND
ALEX HALL welcomes an analysis of how modern capitalism is deeply intertwined with emotions, and their manipulation
News of the World (12A)
Directed by Paul Greengrass
DIRECTOR Paul Greengrass and Tom Hanks have reunited for the first time since making Captain Phillips in 2013 to bring this powerful and moving old-fashioned-style Western to the screen, with a social and political subtext which resonates today.
Based on Paulette Jiles’s novel, it follows war veteran Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Hanks) as he travels from town to town reading the news from an array of national and foreign newspapers to a paying audience.
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