Tag: predictable
Go easy on me: why pop has got so predictable
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The biggest album launch of 2021 began with a social media statement tacitly assuring fans that nothing had changed. Adele was once more in a state of heartbreak – “a maze of absolute mess and inner turmoil … consumed...
The only predictable thing about late spring? My jeans
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Marilyn Monroe once said clothes should be tight enough to show you are a woman but loose enough to show you are a lady. I know this sounds borderline problematic in 2022 but I don’t have time get into that here – and...
Christian Porter’s blind trust should be examined by parliament – but it won’t be and that’s crushingly predictable
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If you weren’t glued to the House of Representatives on Wednesday afternoon, let me bring you up to speed. The Speaker of the house, Tony Smith, a cautious and considered person, examined whether or not the privileges...
Jungle Cruise review – the Rock’s Disney theme-park actioner takes predictable turns
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The Jungle Cruise theme-park ride is a riverboat trip that Disneyland visitors have been queuing up for since the 1950s: an old-timey craft travelling down an artificial jungle river, with a jolly captain pointing out...
Cowboys review – progressive, predictable Montana trans tale
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Comic actors Steve Zahn and Jillian Bell are uncharacteristically earnest in this achingly well-intentioned but thuddingly heavy-handed family drama. Zahn plays Troy, the heavily medicated but supportive father of a t...
Manchester United have regressed and derby defeat was painfully predictable
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Football is a game that only occasionally follows the script. Before every big game everybody prognosticates, looks at the form and the history, considers the tactical match-ups and tries to read the way the historica...