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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Sleaford Mods, Dreamland, Margate review - musical news from...
Sleaford Mods are livid. About everything. But then, aren’t we all? If any single voice could represent this particularly bewildering era, it...
Britney, Soho Theatre review - finding the funny in a brain...
A brain tumour isn't usually the subject of a comedy show but Britney, written and performed by comedy duo Charly Clive and Ellen...
World War Z review - bloodthirsty fun with the zombie apocal...
Based on the 2006 book of the same name, and set in the same universe as the 2013 film...
DVD: The House by the Sea
Robert Guediguian has spoken of the influence of Chekhov on The House by the Sea (Le Villa), and the shadow of the Russian dramatist,...
Banine: Days in the Caucasus review - revolutions, pogroms a...
By fifteen Ummulbanu Asadullayeva — or Banine, to call her by the name under which she wrote and translated — had already lived more than most of...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Terry Allen
Torso Hell tells the story of an American soldier whose limbs were blown off in Vietnam. Amazingly, he and his buddies survived, and in...
CD: The Cranberries – In the End
In the End, the final album by Limerick band the Cranberries arrives three decades after they first formed and just over a year after...
Brockes-Passion, AAM, Egarr, Barbican review - fleshly Hande...
Whips, scourges, sinews, blood and pus: where Bach’s two Passions...
SS Mendi: Dancing the Death Drill, Isango Ensemble, Linbury...
While Bach's and Handel's Passions have been driving thousands to contemplate suffering, mortality and grace, this elegy for black lives lost over...
St Matthew Passion, Ex Cathedra, Skidmore, Symphony Hall Bir...
For the final instalment of their three Matthew Passions this Holy Week, Ex Cathedra gave a large scale performance of Bach’s oratorio in their...