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Nick Hasted

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Nick Hasted has been a film journalist since 1986. As well as The Arts Desk, he currently writes about film, music, books and comics for The Independent, Uncut, Jazzwise and Classic Rock. He has published three books: The Dark Story of Eminem (2002), You Really Got Me: The Story of The Kinks (2011), and Jack White: How He Built An Empire From The Blues (2016).

Articles By Nick Hasted

The Audition review - love and hate at music school

Saturday, 02 April 2022 Read more...

Album: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love

Friday, 01 April 2022 Read more...

Blu-ray/DVD: The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão

Sunday, 27 March 2022 Read more...

Ambulance review – Michael Bay in excelsis

Sunday, 27 March 2022 Read more...

X review - sex and the bloody American dream

Monday, 21 March 2022 Read more...

Three Floors review - nothing like good neighbours

Sunday, 20 March 2022 Read more...

The Phantom of the Open review - charmingly incompetent golfer channels Ealing

Thursday, 17 March 2022 Read more...

Album: Peter Doherty & Frédéric Lo - The Fantasy Life Of Poetry & Crime

Thursday, 17 March 2022 Read more...

Album: The Boo Radleys - Keep On With Falling

Sunday, 13 March 2022 Read more...

The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone review - can it pull you back in?

Sunday, 13 March 2022 Read more...

The Batman review - lean and mean, yet again

Friday, 04 March 2022 Read more...

Cyrano review - a heady cinematic Valentine

Thursday, 24 February 2022 Read more...

Album: Johnny Marr - Fever Dreams Pts 1-4

Saturday, 19 February 2022 Read more...

Album: Sea Power - Everything Was Forever

Thursday, 10 February 2022 Read more...

Lingui: The Sacred Bonds review - female love finds a way

Monday, 07 February 2022 Read more...

Parallel Mothers review - letting the dead speak

Friday, 04 February 2022 Read more...

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Now 45 years in the past, its dazzling star gone a decade or so, The Long Good Friday is a monument of British cinema....

Blu-ray: The Rebel / The Punch and Judy Man

Comedian Tony Hancock’s vertiginous rise and fall is neatly traced in the two films he completed in the early 1960s. The warning signs were...

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Album: Spafford Campbell - Tomorrow Held

Guitarist Louis Campbell and fiddle player Owen Spafford started playing together as teenagers in the National Youth Folk Ensemble when Sam...

The Estate, National Theatre review - hugely entertaining, b...

The first rule for brown people, says the main character – played by BAFTA-winner Adeel Akhtar – in this highly entertaining dramedy, is not to...

Music Reissues Weekly: Mike Taylor - Pendulum, Trio

Wheels of Fire was Cream’s third album. Issued in the US in June 1968 and in the UK two months later, it was a double LP. One record was...