Robert Beale
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Album: Meshell Ndegeocello - No More Water: The Gospel of Ja...
Meshell Ndegeocello's groundbreaking new album No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin takes you on a musical journey which defies...
Lady in the Lake, Apple TV+ review - a multi-layered Baltimo...
Laura Lippman’s source novel for Apple’s new drama became a New York Times bestseller when it was published in 2019, and director Alma Har’el’s...
Twisters review - satisfyingly cataclysmic storm-chaser saga
“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!” urged King Lear, accompanied by the Fool, on the blasted heath. But that’s not quite snappy enough for the...
The Echo review - a beautiful but confusing look at life in...
El Eco (The Echo) is a small village in Mexico’s central...
Album: Isabell Gustafsson-Ny - Rosenhagtorn
In a discussion recently a friend compared generative...
About Dry Grasses review - warts and all portrait of an unha...
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest is a test of stamina: a 3hr 15min study of a man paralysed...
Album: 137 - Strangeness Oscillations
Something of a jazz supergroup this one: with drum virtuoso, the...
Prom 6, Verdi's Requiem, BBCNOW, Bancroft review - runn...
Returning after ten months to the unique vasts of Albert’s colosseum, especially for a Verdi Requiem as powerful as this and a packed hall, felt...
10 Questions for DJ-producer Dave Clarke
Dave Clarke (b. 1968) is, arguably, Britain’s greatest techno...
The Butterfly House, Clonter Opera review - Puccini in biogr...
For 50 years Clonter Opera, the song-on-the-farm project in rural Cheshire, has been encouraging would-be...