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Yet it epitomises a disturbing Hollywood trend that leaves one wondering just what sort of American movies we’re going to be watching come the millennium. This new version of the same whiskery old plotline is Scream Umpteen, locatable anywhere on the numerical continuum.It would be easy, and also deeply satisfying, to dismiss The Faculty as [...]

And if you listen to the music Strauss intially gives her, much of it is like Sophie It chatters. In her first scene she might just as well be chattering to Octavian in a Viennese palace as to a hairy prophet in a cistern. Strauss somehow rose above such details of differentiation.What makes this reading, [...]

The only jarring, if inventive, portrayal is the ghost of Hamlet’s father; a white knight, with silver visor and gauntlets, who emerges on concealed stilts to spooky music and dry ice. It was certainly striking, but a little more Star Wars than spirit walks.Roberto Zucco is based on the story of a real-life serial killer. [...]

It’s got continuity of message and catchphrase – “Have a break” – but it introduces a distinctly edgier, younger aesthetic. But much more interesting.The other Kit-Kat treatment looks and feels completely different because it’s animation, in that fashionable neo-50s commentary style – a bit Wallpaper, a bit Conde Nast Traveller.A lazy, nail-painting secretary gossips away [...]

We could look for evidence; whiny-voiced educators disporting with long-legged prostitutes on the Croisette and LEA finance directors scarfing up their posh venison tucker in Le Caprice. They “market- test” these products on “consumer groups” and make little pie charts (haha) and adjust their “product specifications” for “maximised consumer acceptance” and at the end of [...]

What at first sight looks like another disposable psalter for Zeitgeist-surfers, turns out to be a work rich in humour and insight. His existence appears to consist of avoiding his wilfully worldly brother, attempting to track down an obscure magazine called TV Forum and lamenting the foul-mouthed excesses of Londoners.In all likelihood this sounds unpromising. [...]