Gerard Gilbert
Bio
Gerard has been a television critic and feature writer for the Independent since 1994. He has also written about TV and cinema for Time Out, The New Statesman and Radio Times.
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Album: Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts
Miley Cyrus has always been, broadly, A Good Thing. A Top Pop Star. A sassy, funny, puritan-scaring, omnisexual chaos monkey at the heart of pop...
L'enfant et les sortilèges, VOPERA, LPO, Reynolds onlin...
Colette’s sharply fantastical libretto for Ravel’s second one-act...
Possessor review - death by virtual reality
Many have struggled to bring a new slant to the horror genre,...
Album: Gary Barlow - Music Played By Humans
Gary Barlow’s Music Played By Humans is, in all but name, a...
Hillbilly Elegy review - misery in the heartland
Published in June 2016, J.D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy became a best-seller around the time of that November’s presidential...
Album: Billie Joe Armstrong - No Fun Mondays
During the first lockdown in March, Green Day’s Billie Joe...
Extract: 'On Loneliness' by Fatimah Asghar, from...
The infamous border wall. Prolonged detention. Children in cages. Even as Biden's election promises a sea change in...
The Seven Deadly Sins, Opera North online review - viscerall...
Theatres are currently banned from moving scenery and props about on stage and you might expect this to present a major obstacle to a production...
Ariodante, Royal Opera online review – stylish, but confined
“After black and gloomy night, the sun shines all the brighter,” sings hero Ariodante after a life-threatening bout of jealousy nearly scuppers a...