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Benson Boone, O2 London review - sequins, spectacle and cheeky charmWednesday, 05 November 2025
After cancelling his Birmingham gig an hour before curtain-up due to illness, the anticipatory hype around whether Benson Boone’s London show at The O2 would actually go ahead was almost as electric as his infamous song. But a reassuring ping from... Read more... |
Die My Love review - good lovin' gone badWednesday, 05 November 2025
Directed by Lynne Ramsay and based on the book by Ariana Harwicz, Die My Love is an unsettling dive into the disturbed psyche of Grace, played with mercurial brilliance by Jennifer Lawrence. Grace is a new mother still struggling to get... Read more... |
First Person: Kerem Hasan on the transformative experience of conducting Jake Heggie's 'Dead Man Walking'Tuesday, 04 November 2025
There is a scene in the second act of Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking in which the man condemned to death, Joseph De Rocher, with his spiritual advisor Sister Helen Prejean in tow, have a devastating interaction with his mother.... Read more... |
Bugonia review - Yorgos Lanthimos on aliens, bees and conspiracy theoriesFriday, 31 October 2025
“How can you tell she’s an alien?” asks Don (Aidan Delbis, an impressive neuro-divergent actor) of his cousin Teddy (the excellent Jesse Plemons).Yurgos Lanthimos’s gripping black comedy Bugonia (nothing to do with begonias, by the way, but a Greek... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: director Kelly Reichardt on 'The Mastermind' and reliving the 1970sWednesday, 29 October 2025
Kelly Reichardt has a thing about losers. You often see them in her films. It's the failure of American individualism that concerns her.Even when she tells stories of her country's history, like in the anti-western Meek's Cutoff (2010) or the 2019... Read more... |
Blu-ray: Wendy and LucyTuesday, 28 October 2025
Wendy and Lucy is a road movie with a protagonist who’s unable to move on, and a study of friendship where one half of the partnership is mostly absent from the screen. Originally released during the 2008 financial crisis, Kelly Reichardt’s third... Read more... |
The Mastermind review - another slim but nourishing slice of Americana from Kelly ReichardtFriday, 24 October 2025
The clatter of cool jazz on the soundtrack announces writer-director Kelly Reichardt’s latest project, the kind of score that back in the day would have announced a film by a maverick new talent. The film, her ninth, has been given a faded and... Read more... |
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere review - the story of the Boss who isn't boss of his own headFriday, 24 October 2025
There’s something about hauntingly performed songs written in the first person that can draw us in like nothing else. As songs from Robert Johnson to Leonard Cohen remind us, they can take us into the mental recesses of their subjects – for... Read more... |
Mary Page Marlowe, Old Vic review - a starry portrait of a splintered lifeFriday, 24 October 2025
I came late to the Old Vic's shimmering production of Mary Page Marlowe, Tracy Letts's Off Broadway play from 2018 which has arrived in London with Andrea Riseborough and Susan Sarandon leading a sizable and uniformly excellent cast. And I hope... Read more... |
The Diplomat, Season 3, Netflix review - Ambassador Kate Wyler becomes America's Second LadyWednesday, 22 October 2025
The return of this entertaining political drama is always welcome, though its soap-tinged mix of transatlantic politics and volatile personal relationships is beginning to look a little too genteel for our current age of ever-worsening crises.In the... Read more... |
London Film Festival 2025 - Bradley Cooper channels John Bishop, the Boss goes to Nebraska, and a French pandemicFriday, 17 October 2025
Is This Thing On? Bradley Cooper has previously directed A Star Is Born and Maestro, but they weren’t nearly as much fun as this. It’s a story of New Yorkers in the throes of mid-life crises, as Alex Novak (Will Arnett) separates from his wife... Read more... |
London Film Festival 2025 - from paranoia in Brazil and Iran, to light relief in New York and TuscanyWednesday, 15 October 2025
Film festivals are a bran tub: what you find in them may be unexpected, and not always in a good way. Here are six I pulled out in my first week (minus one of my favourites, The Mastermind, which I will review when it goes on general release next... Read more... |
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