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Blu-Ray: Le Samouraï
Jef Costello, the lone contract killer in Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967), carries out the murder of the boss of a night club....
Music Reissues Weekly: Once Upon A Time In The West Midlands...
The picture seen above doesn’t have quite the same resonance as Art Kane’s 1958 shot A Great Day in Harlem which brought 57 American jazz...
Zingari/Tosca Suite, Opera Rara, Rizzi, Cadogan Hall review...
Two major composers took Pushkin’s narrative poem The Gypsies as the subject for two very different...
Album: Madmess - Rebirth
Madmess are a Portuguese power trio who are based in London. Muscular and (mostly) instrumental stoner...
Life of Pi, Wyndham's Theatre review - visually ravishi...
When the Canadian Yann Martel went to India as a young adult backpacker he fell in love – not with one person but with the rich imaginative...
Starstruck, Scottish Ballet review - smart, sassy and cinema...
How do you picture Gene Kelly? Most likely in his effervescent screen persona, either as the burly ex-GI of An American in Paris, or as...
Hellbound, Netflix review - supernatural assassins usher in...
Netflix is sometimes criticised for bringing too much of...
10 Questions for musician and DJ Pete Tong
Perhaps appropriately, when I called Pete Tong for his 10 questions I...
Album: Paul Weller - An Orchestrated Songbook
It’s a far cry from his beginnings in a tight, no-frills power-pop-post-...
theartsdesk at Tallinn's Black Nights Film Festival - s...
Film festival chiefs the world over have been having a tricky time...