Rebecca Ritzel
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Vortex review – an old couple's road to nowhere
Life, opined Thomas Hobbes, is “nasty, brutish, and short”. In Gaspar Noé’s Vortex it’s not short enough for a dementia-afflicted...
The Great Escape 2022, Brighton, review - sunshine, queues,...
My friend George claims to have nightmares about The Great Escape. In them he’s standing in an endless queue, never reaching the front, never...
The Breach, Hampstead Theatre review - profoundly uncomforta...
Jude is the kind of girl that no-one would want to mess with – she can dance like a demon to Eric Clapton, skewer an ego in seconds and hit an...
Ozark, Series 4 Part 2, Netflix review - crumbling conscienc...
As the final slew of episodes in the last series of Ozark...
Vondráček, LSO, Tilson Thomas, Barbican review - mixed messa...
Conductor and pianist came at Liszt from opposite directions last...
Andy Zaltzman, Soho Theatre review - satire on the hoof
Andy Zaltzman comes on stage to deliver a short preamble to his show Satirist For Hire. Much of the hour is suggested by the audience as...
Dandy, BBC Philharmonic, New, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester...
Saturday’s concert by the BBC Philharmonic was in large measure about the Mahlers – Gustav and Alma. The former’s First Symphony formed the...
Album: Mavis Staples and Levon Helm - Carry Me Home
There is so much gospel out there that it’s not easy to stand...
Music Reissues Weekly: 999 - A Punk Rock Anthology
“Ramonic buzzsaw impressionism guitars lovingly poured like a truckload of Quaker Oats over the indecipherable lyrical content that sounds like a...
Blu-ray: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
The Driller Killer, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer form a self-descriptive yet...