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What constitutes a “lost classic”? I guess we can’t say it’s an oxymoron, since we readily accept the concept of “instant ...
Netflix’s new detective-noir is a somewhat cosmopolitan beast. It’s written and directed by an American, Scott Frank, derived ...
I think The Ballad of Wallis Island is the best British romcom since I Know Where I’m Going! (1945), which it closely ...
Recent events have prompted the assertion – understandable in Ukraine – that the idea of the Russian soul is a nationalist ...
Pete Shelley’s departure from Buzzcocks felt abrupt. When he left the Manchester band which had been integral to British punk ...
This charmingly eloquent semi-autobiographical show – which first played at the Bush Theatre in 2022 – tells the story of a ...
It’s intoxicating, not at all theartsdesk on Vinyl ’s usual thing but achieving soaring lift-off, nonetheless. Comes in photo ...
Director Ben Rivers is primarily an artist, and it shows. Every frame of Bogancloch is treated as a work of art and the ...
For the first half-hour of this show – on the day before the release of his new album Alan Sparhawk With Trampled by Turtles ...
Dara Ó Briain’s  has described his previous show So… Where Were We? – in which he describes his search for his birth mother ...
Nick Mulvey’s first two albums, First Mind in 2014 and Wake Up Now in 2017, are among the loveliest singer-songwriter fare ...
I can’t move my arms or legs but apart from that I’m good to go.” Moth (Jason Isaacs) has to be pulled out of the tent in his ...