Category: Arts
Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem album review – a sense of special occasion, all concerned believe in it
“A Requiem for human contact, solidarity and the human voice that have all become dangerous and contagious” is Rufus Wainwright’s description of his ambitious requiem, [more…]
‘In her own out-there world’: FKA twigs’ 20 greatest songs – ranked!
20. Measure of a Man (ft Central Cee) (2021) An unexpected diversion. From spy action movie The King’s Man, Measure of a Man goes full [more…]
‘I hate this movie, and I haven’t even seen it’ – Americans won’t let a chimp Robbie Williams entertain them
Despite the terrible box office performance, and movie theatres cancelling screenings, Americans are at least talking about the Robbie Williams biopic, Better Man. “I hate [more…]
Play that funky noise intoner! The rumblers, gurglers and howlers of the world’s strangest orchestra
Today it is the venerable home of the English National Opera, but back in June 1914, the London Coliseum welcomed an act quite unlike anything [more…]
Mogwai: The Bad Fire review – noise stalwarts’ journey into hell is unexpectedly heavenly
Mogwai’s 11th album commences with an icy electronic arpeggio enveloped in reverb. Beneath, other, deeper, darker synthesiser tones build and glide. The effect is both [more…]
Timothée Chalamet claims he was fined £65 for parking Lime bike at A Complete Unknown premiere
Timothée Chalamet’s choice of vehicle to the London premiere of the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown on Tuesday night won him a new legion [more…]
‘Prison is not a place for rehabilitation’: jailed rapper Marnz Malone on confronting inmate suicide
In November 2022, one year into an 11-year prison sentence for firearm charges, Birmingham rapper Marnz Malone was hanging out with his friends during “sosh”, [more…]
Wolf Man review – fear-free update of the lupine myth lacks bite and believability
Horror virtuoso Leigh Whannell, screenwriter of the original Saw and writer-director of The Invisible Man, gets into an awful mess with this fundamentally muddled and [more…]
One of Them Days review – Keke Palmer and SZA take a bumpy but fun ride
I will be the first to say: I miss Insecure, which left a dynamic duo-sized hole in the TV landscape since it concluded in December [more…]
Baftas 2025: Conclave leads a pack of underdog tales – and Kneecap may already have won
These Bafta nominations have given us the traditional buffet of snubs for industry observers to frown at. Nothing at all for Luca Guadagnino’s tremendous drama [more…]
