Emma Simmonds
Bio
Emma is a film and TV critic whose words have appeared in Time Out, Radio Times, The Observer, Empire, Total Film, Little White Lies, The Spectator, Virgin Movies, MovieMail and Popmatters, amongst many others. She is also a contributor to the London, New York and Glasgow volumes of the World Film Locations book series. She is The List magazine's current Film Reviews Editor and The Arts Desk's former Film Editor.
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Raya, Hampstead Downstairs review - a richly fraught reunion
Thirty years on, Alex and Jason meet at a university reunion and cab it back to Jason’s old student house where Alex is thinking “probably…” and...
Album: John Grant - Boy From Michigan
While recognisably a John Grant album, Boy From Michigan brings on board something new and unprecedented – an outside producer. Welcome,...
Physical, Apple TV+ review - too much pain, not enough gain
It’s not easy to sum up Physical in a pithy...
Blu-ray: Flowers of Shanghai
Rounding out a decade of personal success – beginning with his Cannes Jury Prize-winning The Puppetmaster (1993), followed by a...
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021 Final, BBC Four review...
A massive musical hope for the future is what we all need right now, after 14 stop/semi-start months and a threatened decimation of the concert...
Young Pilgrims, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham review – rauco...
With a third wave of Covid-19 being widely predicted...
Ivan the Terrible, Grange Park Opera review - from tsar to S...
All 15 of Rimsky-Korsakov’s operas deserve to...
Album: Angélique Kidjo - Mother Nature
Hailing from Benin and based in Paris since she was 23, Angélique Kidjo can sing in five languages, has...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Dungen - Stadsvandringar
Dungen’s October 2005 appearance on Late Night With Conan O'Brien was incongruous. Here was a...
Solstice, English National Ballet, RFH review - a midsummer...
“A tonic to the nation”. That was the hoped-for effect of the Festival of Britain in 1951, and its concrete legacy was the...