James Walton

Incoherent and conspiracy-fuelled: Adam Curtis’s Can’t Get You Out of My Head reviewed

Curtis condemns the conspiracy-theory coincidence-noting and link-making that now dominates the internet – yet that is his entire modus operandi

Losing the plot: still from Adam Curtis’s latest windy documentary Can’t Get You Out of My Head
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