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Herculean
9/10
Paul Theroux’s ‘Grand Tour of the Mediterranean’ is typical Theroux in many ways, the vagaries of his mood often colouring his perception of the places he visits, but he plays on his reputation as a misanthrop and cumugeon throughout this travelogue. After a comment on the opening page about ‘runty shunted trees and ugly houses’, [...]

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Doves, hawks and road maps
8/10
Directed by Stephen Gaghan - writer of Soderberg’s superb ‘Traffic’ - Syriana is a complex and fragmented web of stories that aims to provide a snapshot of the ways in which the US pursues its oil interests in the Middle East. In the same way that Traffic examined the US’ [...]

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