Svend McEwan-Brown

Articles By Svend McEwan-Brown

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Anna Friel’s unstable detective Marcella Backland has been on...

From a distance, the pianist Christian Blackshaw bears an uncanny resemblance to Franz Liszt, silver hair swept back à la 19^th...

I suspect that the work of James Baldwin is not all that...

A darkened stage; a pool of light; a solitary figure. And then, flooding the whole thing with meaning, music – even it’s just a soft chord on a...

Relic's deliberate drabness hits home first; set in Victoria,...

Polly Walker's character in Netflix's sumptuous new ...

“Hope”, from the debut album by 20 year old London...

Finally, it seems, the time is right for a major British TV drama about how the AIDS crisis hit the early 1980s London...

"Three plus versions of the same album. It’s ridiculous, but I’m glad.” The first paragraph of Richard Hell’s text in the booklet accompanying...

This is an odd film, made even odder by a caption near the beginning, which claims it is "inspired by true events" but doesn’t elaborate. Produced...