Ellin Stein

Articles By Ellin Stein

DVD: While We're Young Friday, 24 July 2015 Read more...	Love & Mercy Friday, 10 July 2015 Read more...
Dear White People Tuesday, 07 July 2015 Read more...	Entourage Wednesday, 17 June 2015 Read more...
DVD: Selma Tuesday, 16 June 2015 Read more...	Rosewater Friday, 08 May 2015 Read more...
A Little Chaos Thursday, 16 April 2015 Read more...	Dior and I Wednesday, 25 March 2015 Read more...
Beyond Clueless Saturday, 24 January 2015 Read more...	Birdman Wednesday, 24 December 2014 Read more...
Get On Up Monday, 17 November 2014 Read more...	At Berkeley Monday, 08 September 2014 Read more...
The Congress Wednesday, 13 August 2014 Read more...	Fruitvale Station Monday, 02 June 2014 Read more...
The Unknown Known Sunday, 23 March 2014 Read more...	Extract: That's Not Funny, That's Sick Monday, 15 July 2013 Read more...

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

It followed some...

In an ideal world an end-of-year roundup would applaud only new ventures – fresh productions that you may curse for having missed but whose...

Billie Holiday sings again, Olivia Laing tends to her garden, and Biran Klaas takes a chance: our reviewers discuss their favourite...

Young eldritch junkie Nick Cave would have struggled to predict his maturity as a font of wry and sacred wisdom, or the fathomless loss he...

Maybe it was the timing, even though most of the action takes place in bright sunlight...

I thought I might never be able to say it’s been a great year for...

“O stay and hear,” sings Twelfth Night’s jester Feste in his song “O mistress mine”, “your true love’s coming,/ That can sing both high...

Looking back over the past 12 months, it struck me how it has been the shows fashioned from personal stories that have stayed with me. It wasn't...

They say cinema is dying (you never know, they may be wrong), but you can’t help noticing the stampede of movie stars towards TV and streaming....

A reissue can be an aide-mémoire, a reminder that a record which has been off the radar for a while needs revisiting, that it deserves fresh...