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• Keith Treacy and Conan Byrne believe Nathan Collins' big money

  by utuk utuk July 27, 2022
  The Republic of Ireland defender recently left relegated Burnley to return to the Premier League for an undisclosed fee assumed to be in the region of £20.5m, which would make him the most expensive Irish transfer of all time. Speaking on the RTÉ Soccer Podcast, former Ireland, Blackbu...

• Proms composers on their extraordinary new music

  by utuk utuk July 26, 2022
  ‘Apocalyptic nightmares fuel my music’   Mark-Anthony Turnage Tell us about your Proms piece … I wrote Time Flies three years ago, in what seems a more innocent era. It was a reaction to getting older. Having grown up in the 1960s, I have, like many people, a nuclear anxie...

• Billy Porter’s sweet but uneven trans teen rom-com

  by utuk utuk July 24, 2022
  Representation can be a double-edged sword. There’s undeniable power in seeing oneself reflected on screen, in normalizing marginalized identities, but an emphasis on visibility alone can reduce complex characters to one identity, one presentation, a checkbox on a list. This is the fine line w...

• She Will review – atmospheric tale of post-menopausal revenge f

  by utuk utuk July 20, 2022
  Director Charlotte Colbert’s first feature, co-written by her and Kitty Percy, brews up a tangy blend of folk horror and post-MeToo reckoning with a salty spike of satire targeting the sort of new age piffle certain entitled rich people swoon over. Protagonist Veronica Ghent (Alice Krige, alwa...

• Don’t Make Me Go review – mediocre family weepie with a cheap t

  by utuk utuk July 18, 2022
  At the beginning of Amazon’s cutesy father-daughter tale Don’t Make Me Go, a voiceover tell us: “You’re not gonna like the way this story ends, but I think you’re gonna like this story.” Almost two hours later and the prophecy was only half-correct. For the way th...