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Film review: Beau Is Afraid - A middle-aged mummy’s boy

Ari Aster's alt-reality, distopian film is a wonderful take on Oedipal misery and the horror of drug abuse

By Linda Marric

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This image released by A24 shows Joaquin Phoenix in a scene from "Beau is Afraid." DB_00661.ARW
Is The Big Lebowski’s Walter the greatest Jewish character?

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Why I stand by my opera version of Striped Pyjamas

Why I stand by my opera version of Striped Pyjamas

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Vintage Biblical illustration features Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh after the Tenth Plague, Death of the Firstborn. Babies lay dead on the steps with their mothers distraught as Pharaoh finally grants permission to the Israelites to leave Egypt.

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Creator of Holocaust video game says he wants to 'keep Shoah memory alive'

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Koestler was a misogynist but he is still worth remembering

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TOPSHOT - Protesters shout slogans and hold placards during a demonstration on Whitehall opposite Downing Street in central London on April 7, 2018 in support of the Palestianians in the Gaza Strip calling for a stop to the killing organised by the Palestinian Forum in Britain. - Hundreds of protesters gathered on Whitehall opposite Downing Street in London to protest in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip after Israeli troops killed nine during the latest border clashes in a week of bloodshed. Thousands of protesters approached the border fence around Gaza for a second Friday in a row, burning tyres and hurling stones at Israeli forces, who responded with tear gas and live ammunition. In addition to the nine dead, at least 491 were wounded by Israeli gunfire, the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza enclave said. (Photo by Tolga AKMEN / AFP) (Photo credit should read TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

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