2012 November

By the time this issue of the Observer is out, we will have begun to see the reaction to the new movie made from David Mitchell’s wonderfully odd novel, Cloud Atlas. The movie has been getting some early attention because...

Flaming arrows fly. Jumping, twisting, hurling, whirling bodies brandish swords. Warriors die in many inventive ways: impaled through a wooden door, decapitated by sword, caught by the sudden thrust of a thrown dagger....