Saskia Baron

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“Why does everyone hate the police?” the teenage son of French cop Stéphanie (Léa Drucker) asks, reflecting the opinion of all his friends…
Australian singer Courtney Barnett exists within a rare Venn Diagram intersection. Her lyrics meld poetry and prosaic everyday detail with…
Scipione has not fared well with critical posterity. True, the Grenadier Guards somehow enlisted its stately opening orchestral number as…
It's a double first, please, for all the students involved in what for me are two of the year's best concerts. Back in May, two soloists…
From 2010, for around five years, Tinie Tempah was one of Britain’s biggest pop stars. He had three chart-toppers, as well as many other…
Older women, even middle-class women, are living with unbearable stress. Don’t believe me? Well, look around you. The stress of living up…
At first sight, Dominik Moll’s latest release, Case 137, might look like a police procedural, or a docudrama about a specific incident. But…
Taiki Waititi’s take on Klara and the Sun is, unsurprisingly, more of a comedy - childish, slapstick - than Kazuo Ishiguro’s sombre…
“My childhood was small, but I’m going to be big,” sang Grian Chatten on Dogrel in 2019. He wasn’t kidding. Fontaines DC are on one hell of…
There were times when this event felt more like a devotional rite than a concert. Thirteen thousand of us had gathered at the Utilita Arena…