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Nick Hasted

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Nick Hasted has been a film journalist since 1986. As well as The Arts Desk, he currently writes about film, music, books and comics for The Independent, Uncut, Jazzwise and Classic Rock. He has published three books: The Dark Story of Eminem (2002), You Really Got Me: The Story of The Kinks (2011), and Jack White: How He Built An Empire From The Blues (2016).

Articles By Nick Hasted

Ferrari review - a steady, slow-lane biopic

Wednesday, 27 December 2023 Read more...

Anselm review - post-war German reckonings in 3D

Sunday, 10 December 2023 Read more...

Blu-ray: Blackhat

Wednesday, 06 December 2023 Read more...

Powell and Pressburger: In Prospero's Room

Saturday, 02 December 2023 Read more...

Mami Wata review – a gorgeous, strange African fable

Sunday, 19 November 2023 Read more...

Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin review – close-up on chaos

Saturday, 11 November 2023 Read more...

Rustin review - a doubly liberated American life

Sunday, 05 November 2023 Read more...

London Film Festival 2023 - mixed fortunes for film masters

Thursday, 19 October 2023 Read more...

London Film Festival 2023 - Scorsese on Scorsese

Sunday, 15 October 2023 Read more...

Mob Land review - familiar pulp fiction

Saturday, 26 August 2023 Read more...

Blue Beetle review - radical rehash

Sunday, 20 August 2023 Read more...

Haunted Mansion review - corporate craft

Saturday, 12 August 2023 Read more...

Joy Ride review - pioneering horniness

Sunday, 06 August 2023 Read more...

Blu-ray: The Driver's Seat

Tuesday, 01 August 2023 Read more...

Isabelle Huppert and director Jean-Paul Salomé: 'Cinema is about a little trade, a little business'

Tuesday, 11 July 2023 Read more...

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny review - a baggy, finally poignant finale

Saturday, 01 July 2023 Read more...

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What defines a life? Money and success? Happiness? Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams employs a narrator, much as Terrence Malick’s...

Kali Malone and Drew McDowell generate 'Magnetism'...

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Palestine 36 review - memories of a nation

“Rebellion begins with a breath,” an opening aphorism declares in this first film recounting Palestine’s 1936-39 Arab Revolt, long historically...

Relay review - the method man

Ash (Riz Ahmed) is one of cinema’s capable men, the kind of monastically devoted pro made to be a hitman or getaway driver. David Fincher’s ...

The Makropulos Case, Royal Opera - pointless feminist compli...

Janáček described his nature-versus-humanity fable The Cunning Little Vixen as “a merry thing with a sad...

Othello, Theatre Royal, Haymarket review - a surprising mix...

Perspectives on Shakespeare's tragedy have changed over the decades....