David Benedict
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Album: Broken Bells - Into the Blue
Not content with having released one of the best hip-hop albums in recent memory (...
Inside Man, BBC One review - strong cast trapped on a sinkin...
Screenwriter and showrunner Steven Moffat is renowned for some of his work, especially...
Lucian Freud: New Perspectives, National Gallery review - a...
There stands Lucian Freud in Reflection with Two Children (Self-portrait), 1965 (main picture) towering over you,...
Blu-ray: Nitram
Nitram is an object lesson in how to make a responsible film about a mass shooting, right down to not using the fame-seeking...
Only an Octave Apart, Wilton's Music Hall review - inst...
You know you’re in good company the minute these two appear on stage: they are so splendidly what they are, comfortable in their own skins and...
Jaminaround, Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne review - c...
The most unlikely venue: an extraordinary, authentic-as-can-be replica of a large Iron Age roundhouse. There’s a turf and grass roof, and the...
Andrew Murray: Is Socialism Possible in Britain? review - wh...
The title of Andrew Murray’s new book poses a question that also vexed...
Album: The Cult - Under the Midnight Sun
It’s fair to say that The Cult have taken on a number of identities since their mid-80s’ transformation from Goth also-rans the Death Cult to the...
Iphigenia in Splott, Lyric Hammersmith review - raises as ma...
It’s hard to keep up with what terms are in vogue amongst those who insist on classifying and vilifying young people, but one that you...
Girl Picture review - Finnish coming-of-age drama offers not...
What is it with pushy Finnish mums and their acrobatic teenage daughters? Just weeks after the release of the Gothic fantasy Hatching...