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Simon paul

Unhappy Ever After

Posthumous offering from the brilliant but troubled singer-songwriter who died a year ago

One From The Art

First UK gig in over 20 years from the Felix and Oscar of dream-folk

Wham, Bam, Thank You ‘Nam

When it was released in his native Hong Kong in August 1990, John Woo's brutal Vietnam-era epic Bullet In The Head was a box office disaster. Speaking to Uncut in April 2003, Woo remembered: "When we did the premiere, people just walked out...I felt totally exiled." Coming just over a year after the brutal massacre of students in Tiananmen Square, it's perhaps no surprise that the movie—called Die xue jie tou in Woo's native Cantonese, aka Bloodshed In The Streets—was too complicated, too downbeat, too pessimistic. And it is.
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