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It is the equivalent of the Man Booker prize for Science Fiction, the six shortlisted books for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of the year published in 2014 are: The Girl With All The Gifts – M.R. Carey (Orbit) The Book Of Strange New Things – Michel Faber (Canongate) Europe In Autumn –… Read more »
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The first trailer has been released for the BBC adaptation of the Susanna Clark novel ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell’. If you are unfamiliar with the novel it is a fantasy set in an alternative history around the Napoleonic Wars period. It is set in an England where magic once existed and has returned via… Read more »
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He lives in your area, in a nice house with a tidy garden. He shops in your local supermarket, bumping trolleys, apologising with a smile. He drives beside you, waving to let you into the lane ahead of him. What you don’t know is that he has an elaborate cage built into a secret basement… Read more »
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TOMOYASU HOTEI (pronounced “hoe-tay”) is an artist who boasts a stellar career spanning more than three decades. Best known around the world for his original song, ‘Battle Without Honor Or Humanity’, instantly recognisable as the theme from Quentin Tarantino’s film Kill Bill, Hotei (GQ Japan’s ‘Man Of The Year’ for 2014) has sold over 40… Read more »
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Sir Mark Elder joins TV presenter line-up for world’s largest broadcast classical music festival Conductor Sir Mark Elder curates BBC Four Sunday symphony series with Katie Derham as part of regular Proms broadcasts on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays on BBC Four Every Prom broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and online in HD sound Six… Read more »
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The first trailer and image of Johnny Depp in character as Whitey Bulger in the true crime movie Black Mass have been revealed. The film is written by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth and directed by Scott Cooper. It is based on Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and… Read more »
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Point Break was a great film, it was one of Kathryn Bigelow’s early films along with Blue Steel and Strange Days. These films stuck to the framework desired by a big studio for a successful mainstream movie, whilst simultaneously subverting almost every aspect of it. Now it has fallen victim to the all consuming meat… Read more »
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Sufjan Stevens latest album Carrie & Lowell is a heartfelt set of intimate songs prompted by the death of his mother. “I was recording songs as a means of grieving, making sense of it,” he told David Eggers in an interview for the Guardian. Sufjan Stevens’ European tour dates 2015 August: 28 Dublin, Helix 29… Read more »
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To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Dune, the Folio Society has produced a lavish illustrated hardback edition of the book. Frank Herbert’s epic science fiction novel imagined and realised a huge and richly detailed world that has hardly dated in those five decades, indeed it has been the world’s best selling science… Read more »
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The Tale Of Tales is a film adaptation of a 17th century collection of fairy tales by Italian author Giambattista Basile. This is no sanitised or merchandised Disney twaddle however, the film is by Matteo Garrone and stars Salma Hayek , Vincent Cassel, John C. Reilly and Toby Jones. The film weaves reality and fantasy together… Read more »
