Comic travelogue of a trip through Benin around the turn of the millennium
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Book Review: Sidesplitter: How To Be From Two Worlds at Once by Phil Wang (Malaysia)
An engaging and very humorous account of being brought up in Malaysia before moving to the UK as a young adult
Film Review: Le Havre (Finland)
A Utopian slice of small-town life from 2011 by Aki Kaurismäki
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood (USA): Review no 161
#20booksofsummer, book 4 Priestdaddy is an acclaimed memoir by US writer Patricia Lockwood, who is currently on the Women’s Prize shortlist for her first novel, No-one Is Talking About This, and whose tweets come imbued with the aura of legend. This, her first book, was published in 2017, and has a particularly random cover in …
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TV series Wellington Paranormal (New Zealand): Review no 154
New Zealand supernatural comedy mockumentary series currently streaming on Sky
Review no 142: The Young Offenders (Irish TV comedy series)
Filthy Irish coming-of-age comedy
Review no 136: French dramedy Dix Pour Cent or Call My Agent
Highly entertaining French comedy drama
Review no 91: Cook Off – a movie from Zimbabwe
Charming ultra-low-budget rom-com from Zimbabwe, Cook Off
Review no 52: Parasite, film by Bong Joon-Ho (South Korea)
Does Bong Joon-ho’s comedy thriller Parasite live up to the hype?
Review no 40: Jojo Rabbit, film by Taika Waititi (New Zealand)
FAR EAST, SOUTH ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA **** Early reviews of this 2019 film suggested it was a “Marmite” movie: you were either going to love it or hate it, no half measures. I’d watched Waititi’s earlier features, including the hugely entertaining What we do in the Shadows (2014, a mock reality TV documentary about vampires) …
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