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10 April 2018updated 09 Jun 2021 8:46am

SRSLY #139: Isle of Dogs / Ordeal by Innocence / Flower Boy

The pop culture podcast with Caroline Crampton and Anna Leszkiewicz.

By Caroline Crampton

This is SRSLY, the pop culture podcast from the New Statesman. Here, you can find links to all the things we talk about in the show as well as a bit more detail about who we are and where else you can find us online.

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SRSLY is hosted by Caroline Crampton and Anna Leszkiewicz, the NS’s head of podcasts and pop culture writer. We’re on Twitter as @c_crampton and @annaleszkie, where between us we post a heady mixture of Serious Journalism, excellent gifs and regularly ask questions J K Rowling needs to answer.

The links

Isle of Dogs

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The trailer.

Simran Hans reviews the film at Reverse Shot.

What It’s Like to Watch Isle of Dogs As a Japanese Speaker.

Justin Chang reviews the film for LA Weekly.

Alison Willmore argues: Orientalism Is Alive And Well In American Cinema.

Karen Han calls the film “gross Japanese appropriation”.

Ordeal by Innocence

The series on the BBC iPlayer.

The background to the adaptation’s reshoot.

Flower Boy

The album on Spotify.

An interesting review.

For next time:

We are watching Bromans.

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