Category: Arts
‘Bad boy come again!’ The life, death and resurrection of jungle MC Stevie Hyper D
‘Steve is the Jesus Christ of MCs, man. He died for all these guys.” With a chuckle, Darrell Austin is lionising his uncle Steve – [more…]
Beabadoobee review – singer-songwriter cautiously ups the rock ante
Beabadoobee’s stage decor – huge white drapes, an artfully placed stepladder and a dozen cans of paint – heavily implies that the indie rock singer-songwriter [more…]
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat review – finger-popping theory of the conspiracy to kill Congo’s leader
I last encountered the work of the Belgian artist and film-maker Johan Grimonprez in the documentary-reverie Double Take from 2009, which imagined an encounter between [more…]
Roy Haynes, jazz drummer whose career spanned nine decades, dies aged 99
Roy Haynes, a drummer who was one of the last remaining musicians of jazz’s swing and bebop eras, has died aged 99. His daughter Leslie [more…]
Memories of a Burning Body review – tenderly conceived docudrama about the enduring sexuality of women
Costa Rican film-maker Antonella Sudasassi Furniss has curated a docudrama distilled from the experiences of three women in their 60s and 70s, who speak (off [more…]
Lena Dunham to write Sam Bankman-Fried movie for Apple
Lena Dunham has been tapped to write a new movie on the rise and fall of the FTX founder, Sam Bankman-Fried. According to Variety, the [more…]
‘I feel like that was me’: how have Mormons reacted to Hugh Grant horror Heretic?
What is the one true religion? That is one of several leading questions posed by Hugh Grant’s professorial villain Mr Reed in the hit new [more…]
Trailer for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy released
The first trailer for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy has been released online. The fourth in the series of hit comedies films featuring Renée [more…]
Curzon Cinemas has been sold for a ‘bargain’ £3.9m – is this good news for UK filmgoers? | Peter Bradshaw
Who wants to buy an arthouse cinema chain? That question may seem unexpected now that being depressed about post-pandemic filmgoing appears to be the industry’s [more…]
‘If we can’t unionise at Amazon, we have no future’: the film about the workers who took on Jeff Bezos and won
As Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House in January, US trades unions are among the many constituencies bracing themselves for impact. Cheered [more…]
