Sheila Johnston
Bio
Sheila worked on the launch of the Independent, where she was a writer-editor and film critic for 10 years. She has written on cinema for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, The Times, Sight and Sound, Guardian, Libération, Interview and New York Daily News, among other places.
Articles By Sheila Johnston
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The Importance of Being Earnest online review - Oscar Wilde...
Oscar Wilde's fabulous play satirised Victorian England and contained a shedload of quotable quips. Now Yasmeen Khan has written an updated and...
Album: Dinosaur Jr – Sweep It Into Space
When poet Laurence Binyon wrote: “Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn…” he was, of course, talking about the...
Mare of Easttown, Sky Atlantic review - Kate Winslet shines...
Dark family dramas set in unglamorous, unprosperous communities in the north-east of the USA have become a genre unto themselves. One thinks here...
The Gesualdo Six, St Martin-in-the-Fields online review - pe...
For their concert debut at St Martin-in-the-Fields, The Gesualdo Six brought a programme of English motets for the final instalment in...
Blu-ray: Straight Shooting / Hell Bent
There are moments in Straight Shooting (1917), the first feature directed by John (then "Jack") Ford, when its star Harry Carey (1878-...
A Splinter of Ice, Original Theatre Company online review -...
There’s such a genial feel to the pairing of Oliver Ford Davies and Stephen Boxer in...
Helen McCrory: 'If there's one interesting thing a...
Each generation is given an actress who can do everything – be...
Promising Young Woman, Sky Cinema review - Emerald Fennell...
After winning a couple of Baftas, and with five nominations at next week’s Oscars, Promising Young Woman comes surging in on the crest of...
Reissue CDs Weekly: T2 - It'll All Work Out In Boomland
It'll All Work Out In Boomland was issued by Decca at the end of July...