Category: Arts
Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out review – stomps straight to the top of British punk’s table
For the most part, Lambrini Girls’ debut album barrels along in roughly the style that’s hoisted the Brighton duo to cult success over the last [more…]
But what about … the most overlooked performances of this awards season
Demi Moore might get nominated for her first Oscar, four decades into her career, for a gonzo 140-minute body-horror satire that features literally gallons of [more…]
More fizzle than pop: the limits of Nicole Kidman’s erotic drama Babygirl
Arguably the most transgressive scene in Babygirl, A24’s erotic drama from the Dutch writer and director Halina Reijn that has Nicole Kidman on the awards [more…]
Michael Jackson’s daughter reveals drug and alcohol addiction after five years of sobriety
Paris Jackson, the daughter of the late pop star Michael Jackson, has revealed, upon announcing she has reached five years of sobriety, that she is [more…]
Peter Yarrow obituary
Peter Yarrow, who has died aged 86 of bladder cancer, was a member of the highly successful American folk song trio Peter, Paul and Mary. [more…]
Maria review – Angelina Jolie’s Callas commands the screen as a great diva in decline
Angelina Jolie declaims an imperious performance as opera star Maria Callas in this strange, sad, mordantly witty film from screenwriter Steven Knight and director Pablo [more…]
A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg’s sauntering Holocaust tour comedy is a masterpiece
With no great fanfare, Jesse Eisenberg has just given us a masterpiece. This is an effortlessly witty, fluent and astringent comedy with a very serious [more…]
Noel Gallagher joins Shaun Ryder in supergroup Mantra of the Cosmos
As he eyes his return with Oasis later in the year, Noel Gallagher has joined forces with two other icons of Manchester music: the Happy [more…]
Babygirl review – Nicole Kidman sex-positive erotic thriller fails to bring the menace
Cosy crime is one thing. Is this a cosy erotic thriller? An apparently super-transgressive exercise in workplace sub/dom role play but that is weirdly without [more…]
Pepe review – inside the beautiful mind of Pablo Escobar’s hippo
Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias is the Dominican film-maker whose 2017 feature debut Cocote I found challenging and intriguing. Now he has created a [more…]
