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The Winter's Tale, RSC, BBC Four review - post-war poise colours a solid production

Monday, 26 April 2021 Read more...

A Splinter of Ice, Original Theatre Company online review - Graham Greene and Kim Philby are friends reunited

Monday, 19 April 2021 Read more...

Blu-ray: I Was at Home, But...

Thursday, 15 April 2021 Read more...

Blu-ray: Beginning

Tuesday, 06 April 2021 Read more...

A Midsummer Night's Dream, SHAKE Festival livestream review - a star turn from Luisa Omielan makes this 'Bottom's Dream'

Thursday, 01 April 2021 Read more...

Memories of My Father review - the richness of childhood, the cruelty of history

Saturday, 27 March 2021 Read more...

My Father and Me, BBC Two review - Nick Broomfield's moving voyage around his family

Sunday, 21 March 2021 Read more...

Verdict review - social realism and court procedural combine in powerful Manila drama

Saturday, 13 March 2021 Read more...

Deutschland 89, Channel 4 review - the Wall comes down, what next?

Saturday, 06 March 2021 Read more...

Barnes' People, Original Theatre Company online review - intriguing quartet of monologues revived

Tuesday, 23 February 2021 Read more...

Blu-ray: The Ascent

Tuesday, 23 February 2021 Read more...

Hymn, Almeida Theatre online review - highs and lows of a soulful brother bonding

Friday, 19 February 2021 Read more...

Blu-ray: Liberté

Tuesday, 19 January 2021 Read more...

Dear Comrades! review - Andrei Konchalovsky exposes the Soviet past

Thursday, 14 January 2021 Read more...

DVD/Blu-ray: Are We Lost Forever

Tuesday, 05 January 2021 Read more...

Blu-ray: Visual Acoustics

Tuesday, 29 December 2020 Read more...

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Album: Yungblud - Idols

Yungblud has declared his fourth album, Idols, to be a “a project with no limitations”. This is quite a claim.

So, what musical...

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Suzuki, St Marti...

In the Saxony of 1725 – still in the grip of Europe’s “Little Ice Age” – Bach and his musicians would seldom have had to deal with the sort of...

Patrick Wolf, Rough Trade East review - the Kent-based bard...

After the evening’s second song “The Last of England,” Patrick Wolf cautions “I’ve got nothing left to say.” During the shows leading up to this...

4.48 Psychosis, Royal Court review - powerful but déjà vu

Sarah Kane is the most celebrated new writer of the 1990s. Her work is provocative and innovative. So it seems oddly unimaginative to mark the...

The Buccaneers, Apple TV+, Season 2 review - American advent...

Edith Wharton hadn’t finished her novel, The Buccaneers, when she died in 1937, but it was completed in 1993 by Marion Mainwaring. The...