I first read Tayari Jones' 2018 novel An American Marriage on a plane, cover to cover. It seemed like half the people on that plane were reading it
I first read Tayari Jones 2018 novel
An American Marriage on a plane, cover to cover. It seemed like half the people on that plane were reading it too. So were President Obama, Oprah and anyone who follows
The New York Times Best Sellers List. It s a beautifully written book, a portrait of a complicated couple and their navigation of an American tragedy. There s an operatic plot to this story of race and class, inequity and injustice, but our attention stays focused on the love duet that is being sung at center stage, the intimate human relationship of two small people in a big, loud world.
A Clockwork Orange (iTunes/YouTube) Banned in several countries, condemned by the National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures and unavailable to watch in Britain for more than 25 years after it was withdrawn by director Stanley Kubrick himself, this adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ 1962 novel still has the power to shock. Malcolm McDowell plays Alex DeLarge, the leader of a gang of droogs whose “ultra-violent” crime sprees eventually lead to his arrest and imprisonment. Two years into his sentence, he agrees to take part in experimental “aversion therapy”. You’ll never be able to listen to
Singin’ in the Rain or Rossini’s
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Within some of our favourite films, there will undoubtedly be a personal favourite that we consider as under-appreciated by fellow critics and moviegoers. As our new magazine celebrates guilty-pleasures, our writers pick their favourite films that have been under-appreciated and are worth defending.
M.Night Shyamalan has received more than his fair share of criticism as a director, and
After Earth might be his most hated film alongside
The Last Airbender. The vitriol towards
After Earth has always been a little confusing – both stars Will and Jaden Smith seem to be magnets for criticism, just as Shyamalan has been since 2000’s