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Adam Sweeting

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Former features editor of Melody Maker, Adam has written on rock, classical music and television for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, Uncut, Classic FM and Gramophone, and on motor-racing for Motorsport. He co-founded The Virtual Television Company, which made Mr Rock'n'Roll (Channel 4), Pavarotti: The Last Tenor (BBC2 Arena) and Imagine - Nigel Kennedy (BBC One)

Articles By Adam Sweeting

Fatal Attraction, Paramount+ review - Adrian Lyne's bunny-boiler blockbuster expanded onwards and outwards

Tuesday, 02 May 2023 Read more...

Citadel, Prime Video review - did Amazon really pay $300m for this?

Sunday, 30 April 2023 Read more...

The Diplomat, Netflix review - can London's new American ambassador prevent World War Three?

Saturday, 29 April 2023 Read more...

Malpractice, ITV1 review - she got into a mess on the NHS

Monday, 24 April 2023 Read more...

How To Blow Up a Pipeline review - can eco-terrorism be justified?

Friday, 21 April 2023 Read more...

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, ITV1 review - Agatha Christie gets a tense and twisty reworking by Hugh Laurie

Monday, 10 April 2023 Read more...

Magpie Murders, BBC One review - zinging TV adaptation of Anthony Horowitz's bestseller

Saturday, 08 April 2023 Read more...

Rabbit Hole, Paramount+ review - sabotage, subterfuge and corporate skulduggery

Monday, 03 April 2023 Read more...

Villeneuve Pironi: Racing's Untold Tragedy, Sky Documentaries review - a macabre slice of motor racing mythology

Saturday, 01 April 2023 Read more...

John Wick: Chapter 4 review - is this the El Cid of shoot-'em-up movies?

Saturday, 25 March 2023 Read more...

Infinity Pool review - it's like The White Lotus on bad acid

Friday, 24 March 2023 Read more...

Play Dead review - chills, thrills and stolen body parts

Thursday, 16 March 2023 Read more...

Endeavour: The Final Episode, ITV1 review - the final bow for Oxford's finest

Wednesday, 15 March 2023 Read more...

MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, Netflix review - a field day for conspiracy theorists

Friday, 10 March 2023 Read more...

Daisy Jones & The 6, Amazon Prime review - hit rock'n'roll novel doesn't make great TV

Monday, 06 March 2023 Read more...

Liaison, Apple TV+ review - tangly Franglais thriller presses some hot buttons

Thursday, 02 March 2023 Read more...

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As You Like It: A Radical Retelling, Edinburgh International...

There is, let’s be honest, a certain self-congratulatory self-satisfaction among some particularly well-heeled sections of the Edinburgh...

Album: Nova Twins - Parasites and Butterflies

For Nova Twins, the alternative rock/metal duo of Amy Love and Georgia South, the years since 2020 have been a non-stop journey of evolution....

Oslo Stories Trilogy: Sex review - sexual identity slips, hu...

Two chimney sweeps sit by a window. The boss (Thorbjørn Harr) recounts a dream meeting with David Bowie, who disconcertingly looks at...

BBC Proms: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mäkelä review - de...

Klaus Mäkelä teased out all the fragility and the sense of impending mortality in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, revealing a vision that was as...

Hostage, Netflix review - entente not-too-cordiale

Conceived and written by Matt Charman, whose CV...

Music Reissues Weekly: The Beatles - What's The New, Ma...

“What's the New Mary Jane” is a nursery rhyme-like song, one of John Lennon’s most peculiar offerings. It was recorded for late 1968’s double...

Dunedin Consort, Butt / D’Angelo, Muñoz, Edinburgh Internati...

Handel probably wrote his cantata Clori, Tirsi e Fileno in 1707 while he was in the service of the Marquis of Ruspoli in Rome. It tells...

The Maccabees, Barrowland, Glasgow review - indie band retur...

You wait years for a guitar group with brothers to reunite and then two come along at once. The Maccabees return might have attracted far less...