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Stylish Disregard

Malin Hay: Flops, 8 October 2026

Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops 
by Tim Robey.
Faber, 334 pp., £10.99, September 2025, 978 0 571 38121 0
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“... him of the ‘quixotic nature of Hollywood’. Since the birth of the American film industry, as Tim Robey’s Box Office Poison demonstrates, directors have invoked Hollywood’s risk-aversion, their own misunderstood genius and their defiance of commercialism to explain the failure of their movies. But Coppola’s protestations also point up the ...”

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