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MOVIE OF THE MONTH: JOKER
A lot of pearls were clutched when this dropped at the Venice Film Festival, with more than one critic calling it ‘dangerous.’ Well, clearly these bold souls have never been at a bus stop near The Square Peg on a Friday night. What we have here is a fairly straight blend of Taxi Driver and King of Comedy, the Scorsese vibe set off by a version of Gotham City that looks a lot like 1980s New York. Joaquin Phoenix — blistering — is a mentally-ill clown who falls through the cracks and discovers a taste for mass murder, becoming a strange folk hero in the process. Nihilistic and dark, this is the grim obverse of a Marvel movie, in a DC universe. Even if you never shake the sense that it’s the movie equivalent of your teenage cousin who’s just discovered Misfits and Camus, this against-the-odds hit is still the movie everyone’s going to be talking about. See it at Cineworld at Resorts World. Choose from 42 screenings this weekend alone. Times & tickets
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NEED FOR MEAD
For The Vanguard's latest trick, they've only gone and made a small batch mead with Birmingham bees, Birmingham branding and Birmingham's bull all featuring (have a proper squint at Thomas Parry's label design here). Just 50 bottles of "From the Birds to the Bees" — which uses honey from the hives that sit on top of the Custard Factory — will ever exist, putting the JQ bar and meadery even more firmly on the map when it comes to fermented firsts. It's £35 for a bottle, which you can pre-order for late November delivery right here.
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