David Nice
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![A barn owl tracks a field mouse](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Oak%20owl.jpg?itok=SSl9kPEF)
On one level, Heart of an Oak is the most spectacular nature film you are ever likely to see. The camera glides over a forest before...
![Jack Wolfe and Cassie Levy in Next to Normal - at least one of them is keeping it real](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Next%20To%20Normal%20Jack%20Wolfe%20and%20Caissie%20Levy.jpg?itok=2AJfSPF3)
We open on one of those suburban American families we know so well from Eighties and Nineties sitcoms - they’re not quite Homer,...
![Embraceable you: Magalie Lépine-Blondeau as Sophia with her lover Sylvain (Pierre-Yves Cardinal)](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/dancing%20shot%20Nature%20of%20Love.jpeg?itok=E_cZDpf9)
The Nature of Love joins a recent spate of films where older...
![The city that never sleeps](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Anna%20Barclay%20header.jpg?itok=hgWnlrUS)
SUNDAY 30th June 2024
It’s late. But not really. Not by the standards of this place. Photographer Finetime and I...
![Cellist Zoë Martlew plays her own G-lude](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/July%2003%2C%202024_SM_NMCBirthdayConcert_Samples%20ZM.jpg?itok=jvirArQw)
NMC Recordings has spent 35 years promoting contemporary music by British composers, and this commitment to both emerging and established voices...
![Looking good for his age: Khalid Abdalla and cast in 'Mnemonic'](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Mnemonic%201.jpg?itok=98CnQYI8)
I’m sitting in the Olivier waiting for the show to start, comfortable in the knowledge that I’ve seen the original production of Mnemonic...
![Satisfying without going too far: Enter Shikar's companion album 'Dancing On The Frontline'](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/enter%20shikari%20dancing%20on%20the%20frontline.jpg?itok=yLB9eJhC)
For a band as creative as St Albans’ own electronic-...
![Sharpening the Saws, 1927, by Oleksandr Bohomazov. Oil on canvas](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/U%20saws.jpg?itok=J1bAOd6U)
Ukraine’s history is complex and often bitter. The territory has been endlessly fought over, divided, annexed and occupied. From 1917-20 it...
![As ever with Kasabian, striking cover art, this time by Newcastle artist Jimmy Turrell](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/KASABIAN%20HAPPENINGS%20FINAL%20%281%29.jpg?itok=e_UYRKmI)
Great bands’ output can, famously, be predicated by the intense interaction between members, often between a central creative pairing. This can be...