sat 27/07/2024

Douglas McDonald

Articles By Douglas McDonald

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Prom 10, Van der Heijden, BBCSSO, Ryan Wigglesworth review -...

What is Englishness? Over the last century the answer has changed substantially. Yet last night’s...

Lady in the Lake, Apple TV+ review - a multi-layered Baltimo...

Laura Lippman’s source novel for Apple’s new drama became a New York Times bestseller when it was published in 2019, and director Alma...

Album: Meshell Ndegeocello - No More Water: The Gospel of Ja...

Meshell Ndegeocello's groundbreaking new album No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin takes you on a musical journey which defies...

Twisters review - satisfyingly cataclysmic storm-chaser saga

“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!” urged King Lear, accompanied by the Fool, on the blasted heath. But that’s not quite snappy enough for the...

The Echo review - a beautiful but confusing look at life in...

El Eco (The Echo) is a small village in Mexico’s central...

Album: Isabell Gustafsson-Ny - Rosenhagtorn

In a discussion recently a friend compared generative...

About Dry Grasses review - warts and all portrait of an unha...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest is a test of stamina: a 3hr 15min study of a man paralysed...

Album: 137 - Strangeness Oscillations

Something of a jazz supergroup this one: with drum virtuoso, the...

Prom 6, Verdi's Requiem, BBCNOW, Bancroft review - runn...

Returning after ten months to the unique vasts of Albert’s colosseum, especially for a Verdi Requiem as powerful as this and a packed hall, felt...

10 Questions for DJ-producer Dave Clarke

Dave Clarke (b. 1968) is, arguably, Britain’s greatest techno...