Paul Rider

Articles By Paul Rider

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At a time when every other theatre is offering an alternative Christmas show, what to make of the Royal Opera House’s first collaboration with...

Some may consider country music to be corny, sentimental...

Good things don’t tend to come in slews. Slews seem to be reserved, pretty much exclusively, for the bad stuff: legal issues, school shootings,...

Identity is thorny business. This was the parting thought of Anna X, the play that marked Emma Corrin’s West End debut in the summer of...

Paramount added a late “old dark house” mystery comedy to Hollywood’s annus mirabilis of 1939 by teaming Bob Hope with...

Apple TV+ is using the arrival of season two...

This greatest of symphonies starts with what’s plausibly described as arrhythmia of the heart, so it shouldn’t have been surprising to find my own...

We hear the projector whirr as the mute 16mm film flows through the sprockets and on to the screen. For three minutes and a little longer we watch...

This is Noah Baumbach’s most capacious,...

We Were Promised Jetpacks is a band name that seems off the cuff at first glance. This could be said for the Scottish...