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Banville’s latest a wizardly look at gods and man
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... is the one that works. When darkness sifts from the air like fine soft soot and light spreads slowly out of the east then all but the most wretched of humankind rally. It is a spectacle we immortals enjoy, ...
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‘2012’ a wretched exercise in disaster porn
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Director Roland Emmerich is expert at conditioning his audiences to delight in human suffering. A purveyor of the most soulless brand of disaster porn, Emmerich’s lowbrow forte is the special-effect-hemorrhaging ...