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Play the ball, for this NRL carnival comes with sideshows aplenty Nick Tedeschi © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP Nothing in sport is certain anymore. All the assumed truths of decades past – that games will be played, seasons completed and champions crowned – now carry question marks. The closest rugby league has to a sure thing in 2021 is that its biggest star will not be a player or coach but a big-dreaming, hyper-aggressive administrator who wears ill-fitting suits and collects the bodies of those who get in his way. The rise and rise of Pete...
Forget Ratatouille, here's Ratatoing! The rise and rise of the 'mockbuster' Amelia Tait It is hard to describe what happens 24 minutes into Ratatoing, an animated children’s movie from 2007. Four unnerving rats – one with a handlebar moustache, another in pearls – begin to jump up and down and grunt in a restaurant, in order to alarm the human clientele. “La, la, la, la, la,” they sort of sing while sort of dancing. They then do the can-can and shout “HA, HA, HA!” before making ghostly noises. Ratatoing is not, it is safe to say, a good movie. It is barely even a...