Hugh Barnes
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Master Gardener review – a Paul Schrader perennial
Gardener Narvel (Joel Edgerton) sniffs soil the way Blue Velvet’s Frank inhaled gas, finding erasure and release. Following Ethan Hawke’s...
First Person: composer Russell Hepplewhite on setting John B...
Taking a book and lifting it from the page so that it works on the stage is daunting. When the target audience happens to be ...
Hypnotic review - a riotously enjoyable thriller
Masterminded by writer-director Robert Rodriguez...
Kieran Yates: All the Houses I've Ever Lived In, Bright...
The audience questions are when Kieran Yates’ talk boils over. Her book All the Houses I’ve Ever Lived In considers housing policy through...
Music Reissues Weekly: Folk, Funk & Beyond - The Arrange...
Donovan’s “Sunshine Superman” was the UK’s first explicitly psychedelic record. Although there were delays with it hitting shops, it was recorded...
Gretchen Peters, Cadogan Hall review - writer and performer...
It’s 27 years since Gretchen Peters released her debut album, The Secret of Life, championed by Bob Harris and the late Terry Wogan,...
Full Time review - Laure Calamy as a driven single mother
Full Time opens in darkness. All we can hear is the sound of a sleeping woman breathing. It’s one of the few quiet moments in a film...
Moby Dick, Brighton Festival 2023 review - way more than you...
Perhaps one of the most intriguing aspects of contemporary puppetry is its ability to skew our perception of reality so entirely that our senses...
Album: Bob Dylan - Shadow Kingdom
Dylan’s Shadow Kingdom first crossed our paths in July 2021, his first streaming event, and coming little more than a year after the...