Richard Bratby
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Portraits of Dangerous Women review - quirky indie comedy
“I like laws and rules,” Steph (Jeany Spark), a jaded primary school teacher, tells a pet-shop employee – she’s adopting a cat, though...
Album: The Offspring - Supercharged
With Warped Tour anniversary rumours in the air, Green Day and blink-182 touring the world, and 20 huge new tracks from Sum 41, The Offspring’s...
The Other Place, National Theatre review - searing family tr...
Contemporary reworkings of Greek tragedy run a...
Bellringers, Hampstead Theatre review - mordant comedy about...
As hurricanes rip into the American Gulf states with increasing ferocity, Eastern Europe disappears underwater and even the gentle...
Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit, Tate Modern review - adolesce...
Like an angry teenager rejecting everything his parents stand for,...
French Toast, Riverside Studios review - Racine-inspired sat...
It’s always fun jabbing at the permanently open wound that is Anglo-French relations, now with added snap post-Brexit, its fading, but...
Album: Ded Hyatt - Glossy
This record keeps you guessing. It starts off with “Hybrid Romance”, an ambient piece that’s very pretty but has swooping glassy synths that crack...
Ludwig, BBC One review - entertaining spin on the brainy det...
The latest incarnation of David Mitchell, TV actor, looks at first sight much like the familar one from Peep Show and Back...
Ellen DeGeneres, Netflix Special review - no mea culpa and f...
Hard to imagine it now, but just a few years ago Ellen DeGeneres was one of America’s biggest daytime TV stars; her chatshow The Ellen...
The Hardacres, Channel 5 review - a fishy tale of upward mob...
Set in Yorkshire in the 1890s, and based on the novels...