There was nothing in cinemas that looked like
Rango when it released a decade ago this month. Director Gore Verbinski’s first animated feature successfully parodied and paid homage to the Western genre both the Hollywood classics directed by John Ford and Fred Zinneman, as well as the spaghetti Westerns made famous by Italian director Sergio Leone and wrapped it all together in a story straight out of a New Hollywood neo-noir. Despite having a roster of A-listers providing their voices (Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant, Alfred Molina), what truly made
Rango unique among all of the other animated films at the time was the film’s unique visual style, especially when it came to the film s star and his supporting cast.
When author David Shannon s debut novel was accepted by a leading literary agent, it came as a huge surprise - not only to him, but also to his wife.
London-born Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo OBE had no idea her husband had finished the novel he d been working on for years - believing his hours spent in their study were filled with playing on computer games and watching football.
Bernardine, 61, made history when she became the first black woman and the first black Briton to land the coveted literary award in 2019 when her eighth book - Girl, Woman, Other - jointly scooped the gong. Her celebrity fans include Barack Obama, who ranked the novel among his 19 Favourite Books of 2019.
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