Reviews
Space Force, Netflix review - fails to launch
Friday, 29 May 2020
Since Donald Trump's election as US President in 2016, I imagine satirists have slowly lost the will to live – as nothing they can write can outdo his buffoonery.
Krabi, 2562 review - a trance-like visitation
Friday, 29 May 2020
Have you ever visited a destination you saw on film, only to realise it’s not quite how you imagined? Filled with tourists, the scars of mass visitation, and caught between its own culture and staying commercially attractive. The Thai city of Krabi is one such location, made famous by such films as The Beach and The Man with a Golden Gun.
The Uncertain Kingdom review - Britannia agonistes
Friday, 29 May 2020
The Uncertain Kingdom is a VOD anthology of 20 short films, 10 directed by women, comprising a tapestry of life in – and, in one case, outside –...
Andsnes, Eriksmoen and friends, Bergen...
Thursday, 28 May 2020
This is as close as we’re going to come now to the real festival experience. The enviably well-funded Bergen International Festival is serving up on...
The High Note review - Tracee Ellis Ross shines...
Thursday, 28 May 2020
Nisha Ganatra’s musical dramedy, penned by first time screenwriter Flora Greeson, isn’t going to win any prizes for originality and is almost...
Unprecedented, BBC Four review - perspectives on the pandemic
Playwrights find different ways to approach an unfathomable crisis |
A House Through Time, Series 3, BBC Two review - Bristol under the microscope
Slavery, piracy and satire at No 10, Guinea Street |
Desiree Burch, Soho Theatre On Demand review - fantastical storytelling
California comic on Burning Man, sex, race – and LSD |
John Grisham: Camino Winds review - morality tale with a light touch
Grisham’s latest thriller is a playful and topical take on the thriller formula |
Reissue CDs Weekly: Keith Relf - All the Falling Angels
Confirmation that the face of The Yardbirds was a creative force in his own right |
Defending Jacob, Apple TV+ review - does murder run in the family?
Chris Evans and Michelle Dockery impress in adaptation of hit novel |
Have a Good Trip, Netflix review - a breezy journey into the mind
Netflix doc focuses on the lighter side of psychedelics |
A Streetcar Named Desire, National Theatre at Home review - world on fire
NT Live recording of this classic Young Vic production is genuinely unmissable |
Women Make Film: Part Two review - two steps forward, one step back
Mark Cousins gives women the screen - but does he give them a voice? |
The Understudy online review - entertaining adaptation of David Nicholls' novel
Nice in-jokes and smart observations about actors |
What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?, BBC Two review - absorbing but troubling search for answers
How mental illness cut short a brilliant showbusiness career |
Women Make Film: Part One review - a mesmerising journey of neglected film
Cousins' latest opus seeks to give a voice to the women cinema neglected |
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, Dutch National Opera, OperaVision review - fairy-tale good and evil made real
Rimsky-Korsakov's myth resonates in the highest musical and production standards |
The County review - Icelandic drama from the director of 'Rams'
Grímur Hákonarson’s latest feature cuts to the quick of local politics |
A Very British Hotel Chain: Inside Best Western, Channel 4 review - requiem for the hospitality industry?
Bizarre reality doc is entertaining for all the wrong reasons |
Harry's Heroes: Euro Having a Laugh, ITV review - jokey documentary delivers painful emotional truths
It's back to the Nineties with Redknapp's band of brothers |
Visual Arts Lockdown Special 3: gigapixel Rembrandt, magic mushrooms, and more
The best art online this week |
Arena: The Changin' Times of Ike White, BBC Four review - musical mystery becomes personal
The 'true' stories of an almost-star |
Maria Reva: Good Citizens Need Not Fear review - tales of gloomy humour and absurdist charm
Inventive short stories capture Soviet and post-Soviet Ukraine with a surrealist squint |
Billy Bragg in support of The Leadmill, Facebook Live review - a fundraising success of a lounge act
Keeping the red flag flying, even in lockdown |
Khaled Nurul Hakim: The Book of Naseeb review – a bold debut
From Birmingham to Kabul, Hakim’s work presents a unique account of human struggle |
Reissue CDs Weekly: Damily - Madagascar Cassette Archives
Revealed - the spiky music the guitarist made before moving to Europe |
Cats, The Shows Must Go On review - a purr-fectly theatrical experience
This filmed version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical captures its eccentric charms |
Reborn review - horror on the Hollywood skids
No scares but decent ideas down in the B-movie basement |
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The Uncertain Kingdom review - Britannia agonistes
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