wed 19/02/2025

Markie Robson-Scott

Articles By Markie Robson-Scott

JT Leroy review - pseudonym, avatar, literary hoax

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This Way Up, Channel 4 review - hilarity with a dark undercurrent

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Inside the Secret World of Incels, BBC One review - involuntary celibacy, violence and despair

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Lucinda Williams, Barbican review - memories, heartache and Southern secrets

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Marianne and Leonard review - the artist, his muse and collateral damage

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Vita and Virginia review - more Gloomsbury than Bloomsbury

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We the Animals review - lyrical story of brotherly love and family trauma

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Killing Eve, Series 2, BBC One review - the award-winning show returns

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Birds of Passage review - mesmerising Colombian family saga

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Sergio Mendes, RFH review - tight discipline, exceptional musicianship

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My Extreme Drugs Diary, Channel 5 review - the tedium of taking heroin

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Eighth Grade review - a dazzlingly real portrait of a teenage girl

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The Widow, ITV review - Kate Beckinsale stars in tale of a missing husband

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Pose, BBC Two review - transgender goes mainstream

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The Kindergarten Teacher review - obsession, talent and the power of poetry

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Capernaum review - sorrow, pity and shame in the Beirut slums

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