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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
It followed some...
theartsdesk Q&A: filmmaker Payal Kapadia on 'All We...
Payal Kapadia’s lyrical fiction feature debut...
Rumours review - pallid satire on geopolitics
It must have seemed such a delicious premise – a Buñuel-esque comedy about world leaders trapped at a luxury retreat as the apocalypse...
Nightbitch review - Mother's life as a dog
Rachel Yoder says she wrote her debut novel Nightbitch as a reaction to Donald Trump’s first term as President, with what she saw as its...
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl review - mordant seriocomedy about...
The writer-director of 2017’s I Am Not a Witch, Rungano Nyoni, has come up with another scorcher, this time taking aim at...
Ricky Gervais, Touring review - new show, not-so new gags
Ricky Gervais begins by bringing us up to date with the latest “outrage” he has caused; two Netflix specials, SuperNature and...
Katy J Pearson, Saint Luke's and the Winged Ox, Glasgow...
'Tis the season for all manner of bugs, colds and illnesses. One had befallen Katy J Pearson, who struck an apologetic note after the night’s...
Album: Lauren Mayberry - Vicious Creature
Amid the electro-rock crunch of “Sorry, Etc”, Lauren Mayberry spits out, “I killed myself to be one of the boys/I lost my head to be one of the...
Bach Mendelssohn Festival, Part I, Oxford Philharmonic Orche...
“I am not better than my fathers.” Cracked, pained, occasionally rasping, rising to a fearsome roar then subsiding to a throaty whisper, Sir Bryn...
Album: White Denim - 12
White Denim’s literally titled 12th album opens with the fidgety “Light on.” Drawing a line between electronica and Tropicália, it exudes...