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The Vanishing Directed by Kristoffer Nyholm Starring Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan, Connor Swindells, and Olafur Darri Olafsson. If movies have taught us anything, it’s that putting men in isolation far from society is never a good idea. Whether it’s a sun-soaked paradise in the Pacific Ocean or a luxury resort hotel in the Colorado Rockies, those of us with Y chromosomes don’t fair well in quiet, far-flung locales. And so is the case for the three lighthouse keepers at the centre of The Vanishing, which imagines what might have happened to a real trio who mysteriously vanished without a trace from their post on the lighthouse on the Flannan Isles in 1900. Peter Mullan plays Thomas, the veteran keeper of the light, and his world-weary performance is the chief reason to see Kristoffer Nyholm’s handsome, satisfyingly dour thriller. So taken is the Danish director with his leading man that the camera will tend to linger admiringly on the crags of his forehead or on the strange...

Animals are great for allegory. Their representative nature - the sneakiness of snakes, the sleepiness of sloths, the industriousness of ants - allow storytellers to get to the heart of their message quickly and in a way that is almost subconscious. We all know the characteristics of a rabbit or a fox, and we understand their relationship in nature. From there the allegory can build something else, using those creatures to set the stage and to distance the audience from the moral enough that it can sneak past their defenses. It’s the entire premise of fables - these morality stories operate on enough levels that we can absorb the moral without feeling lectured. But the allegory can be a dangerous beast in its own right, especially as it grows complicated - or as it attempts to approach more complicated concepts. You need to be a master to control the seeming simplicity of telling a political story with barnyard animals; just ask George Orwell. That control seems to evade the film...

For a decade now, as the number and pace of matches increase for top-level players, the issue of burnout, particularly towards the end of a season, has come to the fore. Unfairly, some fans have suggested all they do is a few days of light training and an evening match to collect their wage. Those allegations, however, cannot be levelled at Mark Hughes. He played twice in one day and did so without making a fuss. Mark Hughes represented Bayern Munich and Wales the same day Was it an incredible act of professionalism? No, this was a man who enjoyed his football. Here’s the story of how Hughes hot-footed across the continent to play two games in the space of a few hours. With English football in dire straits after the tragic Heysel disaster, Hughes, like many professionals in that period, left the domestic scene to try his hand in Europe. In the summer of 1986, then-Barcelona manager Terry Venables completed a sensational double swoop from his home country to sign Everton’s G...

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