Laurence Jackson Hyman

Articles By Laurence Jackson Hyman

Tuesday, 06 December 2016 Read more...

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

An opening sequence of a drone flying over a busy street in Baghdad, followed by a huge explosion that leaves many casualties and a gaping hole...

If nothing else, ITV’s new thriller Out There is a fabulous advertisement for the Welsh countryside. Many scenes were shot in Brecon and...

Despite Rossini’s banger of an overture and a Looney Tunes cartoon starring Daffy Duck as William Tell, I’ll wager that few non-German-speakers...

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Once again, Glasgow’s annual winter festival of traditional...

The blurb that accompanies this Criterion Blu-ray calls...

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It took a while for journalists to identify the chain-smoking, Machiavellian figure who was a permanent presence at early international gatherings...