Geoff Brown
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DVD/Blu-ray: Mademoiselle
Mademoiselle is Jeanne Moreau, in smouldering femme fatale mode: a school-teacher and town hall secretary in a small French...
A London Saturday with Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Pavel Kolesnikov,...
Even bigger things have happened to Sheku Kanneh-Mason since I last saw him performing alongside his contemporaries in the Fantasia Orchestra –...
White Riot review - energetic documentary races through the...
This documentary about the 1970s activist movement...
James Rebanks: English Pastoral, An Inheritance review - a m...
Coming from a family of farmers, with periods of time working on a farm in the past ten years, I found James Rebanks’ English Pastoral:...
Album: Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension
Sufjan Stevens is an artist of remarkable ambition. His 80-minute long new album, with 15 beautiful and poetic...
Reissue CDs Weekly: John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Giant Steps doesn’t suffer from a lack of availability. A couple of weeks ago, two editions of...
Blu-ray: This Gun for Hire
The 1942 thriller This Gun for Hire, which opened five months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, was closely adapted...
Bill & Ted Face the Music review - modestly delightful
Beavis and Butthead’s vicious grunge-era gormlessness remains interred, Wayne and Garth (and their...
Fidelio, Garsington Opera review - heart of darkness, light-...
It may be only six and a half months since many of us saw a production of...
Picnic at the Castle review - entertaining mixed bill
Of all the outdoor spaces being utilised to keep live performance going in this maddest of years, Warwick Castle is surely among the most striking...