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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Orlando, Garrick Theatre review - Emma Corrin is incandescen...
Identity is thorny business. This was the parting thought of Anna X, the play that marked Emma Corrin’s West End debut in the summer of...
Blu-ray: The Cat and the Canary (1939) / The Ghost Breakers...
Paramount added a late “old dark house” mystery comedy to Hollywood’s annus mirabilis of 1939 by teaming Bob Hope with...
Slow Horses, Series 2, Apple TV+ review - Mick Herron’s spie...
Apple TV+ is using the arrival of season two...
Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, LPO, Jurowski, RFH review - a perfo...
This greatest of symphonies starts with what’s plausibly described as arrhythmia of the heart, so it shouldn’t have been surprising to find my own...
Three Minutes: A Lengthening review - superb portrait of a v...
We hear the projector whirr as the mute 16mm film flows through the sprockets and on to the screen. For three minutes and a little longer we watch...
Album: We Were Promised Jetpacks - A Complete One-Eighty
We Were Promised Jetpacks is a band name that seems off the cuff at first glance. This could be said for the Scottish...
Music Reissues Weekly: Trevor Beales - Fireside Stories
When Trevor Beales’s band Havana Lake released their only album in 1977, it was on a label which also issued records by The Ryman Country Band,...
Directors the Dardenne brothers: 'To be living means to...
Belgian brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne have made their home region of Liège the site of excruciating moral crises and crushing injustice....
Manchester Collective String Orchestra, RNCM, Manchester rev...
Manchester Collective’s string orchestra programme, opening last night at the Royal Northern College of Music and touring to the South Bank, Leeds...