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Older women, even middle-class women, are living with unbearable stress. Don’t believe me? Well, look around you. The stress of living up…
At first sight, Dominik Moll’s latest release, Case 137, might look like a police procedural, or a docudrama about a specific incident. But…
Taiki Waititi’s take on Klara and the Sun is, unsurprisingly, more of a comedy - childish, slapstick - than Kazuo Ishiguro’s sombre…
“My childhood was small, but I’m going to be big,” sang Grian Chatten on Dogrel in 2019. He wasn’t kidding. Fontaines DC are on one hell of…
There were times when this event felt more like a devotional rite than a concert. Thirteen thousand of us had gathered at the Utilita Arena…
Many epic biopics make a messy spread of their protagonist's life (the overrated Oppenheimer is a prime example). Not this one. Though De…
"Chiaroscuro" - "light-dark", usually applied to bold contrasts within a single painting - isn't a term I'd have thought a good fit for the…
Ibsen's powerful study of hypocrisy gleams and bristles in the close-up intimacy of the bijou Jermyn Street Theatre. Richard Eyre's version…
A tray of water, a metallic plate piled with salt, a bubble-producing plastic stick. The kind of tat that looks so cheap you probably…
Music can be a life-healing catalyst, the untrammelled essence of heart and mind conveyed human and raw from the soul. There’s magic in…