Jess Gillam

Articles By Jess Gillam

Thursday, 24 June 2021 Read more...

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

It followed some...

Michael Fassbender recently starred in Paramount+’s rather laborious spy drama The Agency, but here he finds himself at the centre of a...

Henry Gee’s previous book, A Brief History of Life on Earth, made an interestingly downbeat read for a title that won the UK...

Can Francesca Moody do it again? Fleabag’s producer has brought Weather Girl to London, after a successful run at...

Before there was Barbie: The Movie, before there was Legally Blonde, there was Clueless, the Valley Girl movie that...

America – the pro-wrestling-ass nation, the ultimate society of the spectacle – famously likes things big, and modern country and western music...

Not to be overshadowed by the adrenalin charges of the Budapest Festival Orchestra the previous evening, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its...

Occasionally, when I pass my own reflection, out of the corner of my eye I catch a glimpse of the likeness of my father, shining out through the...

Marriage is not often presented in cinema as a bowl of mangoes, but it’s rarely shown as so morbidly strange as in this reckless corker...

“The exercise of fantasy is to imagine other ways of life,” says one of the role-players during a Dungeons & Dragons marathon, because “...