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Helen Czerski: Blue Machine review - how the ocean works
If you cannot even step into the same river twice, how to take the measure of the ocean? Dipping your toes at the beach is irresistible, but...
Blu-ray: Laurin
Mario Bava and Dario Argento are cited as key influences on Robert Sigl’s debut feature Laurin (1989). British viewers will also be...
'Right now, we're in chaos': pianist and Leed...
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.” Replace a few of George Orwell’s words in 1984...
Concert Theatre DSCH, Norwegian CO, Oslo Opera House Scene 2...
Do we really need instrumental Shostakovich with lighting, movement, costumes and video projection? I might have said no before having seen what...
Polly Toynbee: An Uneasy Inheritance - My Family and Other R...
There are few contemporary journalists whose names are...
Album: Foo Fighters - But Here We Are
In 1995 Dave Grohl returned with a new project and album, called Foo Fighters, following the death of Nirvana band-mate and close friend Kurt...
Music Reissues Weekly: Heavenly - Le Jardin de Heavenly
“It takes a real effort to sound this small, this timid; to resist the effort to rock out and kick pedal. Singer ‘Amelia’ (oh yeah, I bet that’s...
Reality review - Sydney Sweeney excels as a whistleblower
The actress Sydney Sweeney’s face in the harrowing docudrama Reality is an ever-evolving map, its contours and pallor altering as it...
Carmen review - curio from choreographer turned director Ben...
The inspirations for the directing...
Amanda review - too-intense Gen Z-er seeks a friend, boyfrie...
Needy, truculent, and aggressive, an in-your-face stick of intensity and guilt-inducing melancholy, privileged young Amanda in...