Sunday, 2 February 2025

Album Review: Hallelujah on Desolation Row, Barb Jungr And Her Trio (Absolute, 2025)

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Always innovative, Barb Jungr's explorations of the songs of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen have been among her most acclaimed and recognis...
Friday, 31 January 2025

Film Review: Flight Risk (dir. Gibson, 2025)

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  "I'm gonna land this plane!!!" As in Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen (2019), Michelle Dockery does all kinds of things that ...

Film Review: The Girl With the Needle (Pigen med nålen) (dir. Von Horn, 2024)

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  Despite retaining some of the same creative team, the three films made so far by Magnus von Horn have been strikingly different from each ...
Saturday, 25 January 2025

Film Review: Babygirl (dir. Reijn, 2024)

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  Apart from Jude Law making his daring escape from the law by hopping on a treadmill, my main memory of Ivo van Hove's staging of Obses...
Monday, 20 January 2025

Piece on late-career Sidney Poitier at BFI online

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  As the Sidney Poitier season continues at BFI Southbank, I wrote about his late career. The piece is up here . 

Feature on Andrzej Wajda at culture.pl

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For culture.pl, I wrote a piece about Andrzej Wajda and his international connections (especially to Japan). You can read it here . 
Monday, 30 December 2024

Theatre of 2024 - 10 Favourite Productions

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  Till the Stars Come Do wn, NT (Photo: Manuel Harlan) The National Theatre started the year with one of its strongest shows: Bijan Sheibani...