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Edinburgh Fringe 2022 reviews: Sara Barron / Jayde Adams / S...
Sara Barron, Pleasance Courtyard ★★...
Prom 34, Soltani, BBC Philharmonic, Ollikainen review - jour...
Proper music tells stories just about itself, the stern pedagogues insist; it doesn’t (or anyway shouldn’t) paint descriptive pictures of places...
Shetland, Series 7, BBC One review - Douglas Henshall is bac...
The last couple of series of Shetland (BBC One) brought the...
Eiffel review - sensuous secret history
This is a romantic historical epic with elan, giving sensual immediacy to a fanciful secret history of the Eiffel Tower, here inspired by a...
Nope review - more a nope than a yep
Writer/director Jordan Peele’s first two features were horror films with bells...
Edinburgh Fringe 2022 reviews: Afghanistan Is Not Funny / Yi...
Afghanistan Is Not Funny, Gilded Balloon ★★...
Les Rencontres d'Arles 2022 review - the place to be th...
Les Rencontres d’Arles 2022 is upon us and the town has given itself over to...
Edinburgh Fringe 2022 reviews: Every Word was Once an Animal...
Every Word was Once an Animal, Zoo Southside ★★...