Gerard Gilbert
Bio
Gerard has been a television critic and feature writer for the Independent since 1994. He has also written about TV and cinema for Time Out, The New Statesman and Radio Times.
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CD: Pokey LaFarge, Rock Bottom Rhapsody - a gourmet gumbo
Talk about a great big melting pot! The eighth studio album by the man born 36 ago as Andrew Heissler in Bloomington, Indiana, and known to the...
Lazy Susan, Soho Theatre On Demand review - sketch duo'...
You may have seen Lazy Susan's excellent BBC pilot last year; now a series has been commissioned from Freya Parker and Celeste Dring so we can...
ReMastered: Tricky Dicky and the Man in Black, Netflix revie...
Netflix’s ReMastered series is one of the streaming channel’s undersung gems. Launching in 2018, when Tricky Dick and the Man in...
The Turn of the Screw, Opera North, OperaVision review - cla...
Feeling stir-crazy right now? Imagine being confined to one room with a half-crazed housekeeper, two dysfunctional kids and two increasingly...
Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema, BBC Four review - the...
Mirrors and windows, looking at ourselves or out into the world, reflecting the culture or making it: compare and contrast. This was the...
Album: Ren Harvieu - Revel In The Drama
Filmic. Lushness balanced with intimacy. Ren Harvieu’s follow-up to 2012’s Top Five Through The Night is crammed with wide-screen aural...
Wild, Hampstead Theatre online review - timelier than antici...
“The whole world is just tilting at the moment,” we’re told near the end of Wild, the Mike Bartlett play from summer 2016 that is...
Four Kids and It review – a family friendly yarn that needs...
With over one hundred books to her name and several hugely popular TV spin-offs, including the Tracy Beaker adventures, Jacqueline Wilson takes a...
'Most significant is the experience of being confronted...
How fast the world can change. What seemed unimaginable just weeks ago, the effective shuttering of our societies, is now a reality in many...