Nick Hasted
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- Bio
- Nick Hasted has been a film journalist since 1986. As well as The Arts Desk, he currently writes about film, music, books and comics for The Independent, Sight & Sound, Uncut and Little White Lies. He has published two books: The Dark Story of Eminem (2002), and You Really Got Me: The Story of The Kinks (2011), both from Omnibus Press.
Articles by Nick Hasted
A Hijacking
Wednesday, 08 May 2013
Tales of pirate drama on the high seas have come a long, unpleasant way since Errol Flynn. Borgen and The Hunt co-writer Tobias Lindstrom’s debut as solo writer-director explores the human factor... Read more... |
theartsdesk at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival
Wednesday, 08 May 2013
Cheltenham is the Dubai of the Cotswolds: a modestly populated town of 100,000 with sufficient wealth and influence to attract disproportionately lavish art and sport to its genteel Georgian streets... Read more... |
DVD: The Long Goodbye
Friday, 03 May 2013
Robert Altman’s 1973 deconstruction of the private eye movie freely adapts and updates Raymond Chandler’s final completed novel from 1952. With Leigh Brackett (the remarkable female screenwriter who... Read more... |
Gimme the Loot
Wednesday, 01 May 2013
It’s the sort of New York summer week where the sidewalk melts. But in writer-director Adam Leon’s SXSW Grand Jury prize-winning cool breeze of a debut, the mood stays amiably balmy. It’s the tale of... Read more... |
Evil Dead
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Down in the cellar where the monsters were in Sam Raimi’s 1982 debut The Evil Dead, you glimpsed a poster for Wes Craven’s 1977 film The Hills Have Eyes, ripped symbolically in half. The bar for... Read more... |
The Gatekeepers
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Retired spymasters, like retired diplomats, break their career reticence with particular relish, what they've known for so long in inverse proportion to what they can say. Dror Moreh’s remarkable... Read more... |
Papadopoulos & Sons
Tuesday, 02 April 2013
In a just world, Papadopoulos & Sons should join Bend it Like Beckham, East is East and The Full Monty in the micro-genre of thoughtfully entertaining, low-budget British feel-good hits. But the... Read more... |
DVD: The Hunt
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Thomas Vinterberg made his name with Festen’s queasy social discomfort, but has struggled to match his Danish compatriot and Dogme 95 co-founder Lars von Trier’s iconoclastic career. The Hunt’s... Read more... |
Jack the Giant Slayer
Thursday, 21 March 2013
This is a fairy tale which may send children to sleep before the good bits, then wake them up screaming at the first glimpse of loping, bestial giants. Splicing Jack the Giant-Killer (subject of a... Read more... |
Interview: Film Director Matteo Garrone
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
When Matteo Garrone’s sixth film Gomorrah won the 2008 Grand Prix at Cannes, it announced Italian cinema’s resurrection to the world. When his follow-up, Reality, won the 2012 Grand Prix, opinion was... Read more... |
DVD: The Master
Friday, 08 March 2013
The Master is one of several remarkably challenging epics which have somehow been financed in 21st-century Hollywood. Like Tree of Life, Synecdoche New York (also starring Philip Seymour Hoffman) and... Read more... |
Sleep Tight
Thursday, 28 February 2013
When Cesar (Luis Tosar) sees Clara (Marta Etura) leave for work in the mornings, he wants to wipe the smile from her face. And as the barely noticed caretaker of her Barcelona apartment building, he’... Read more... |
Oscars 2013: Daniel Day-Lewis
Monday, 18 February 2013
A week from now he could be the all-time Oscar king. If Daniel Day-Lewis’s performance in Lincoln wins him a third Best Actor award, it will send him clear of a thoroughbred field of nine past double... Read more... |
Side by Side
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Does it matter if film dies? Keanu Reeves, always cannier than his limited acting style suggests, produces and presents this even-handed documentary on analogue’s apparently fatal decline in the face... Read more... |
Antiviral
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Body-horror proves a viable family business with Brandon Cronenberg’s writing-directing debut, a chilly, queasy successor to dad David’s best work. Cronenberg Sr.’s Videodrome (1983) – which caught... Read more... |
Murder in the Library: An A-Z of Crime Fiction, British Library
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Crime fiction once lured you in with lurid covers acting like a B-movie poster or fairground barker, selling the promise of thrills within. The British Library’s new exhibition is disappointingly... Read more... |
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