Simon Munk
Bio
Award-winning specialist journalist in videogames, technology, cycling and outdoors products. Experienced copywriter. Competent videogame script editor and writer. Half-finished novelist. Mediocre tea maker.
Articles By Simon Munk
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The $50m Art Swindle, BBC Two review - ramblin' gamblin...
“It’s nice to make money – lots of money,” said Michel Cohen, former high-flying New York art dealer turned debtor, jailbird and fugitive. He made...
Tim Walker: Wonderful Things, V&A review - a bracing ful...
If leafing through the pages of Vogue is a soothing balm, Wonderful Things is a bracing full-body immersion. Though it builds on...
San Sebastian Film Festival: Proxima review – Eva Green has...
Proxima is a very special, very beautiful...
Al Alvarez: 'If I drop dead this minute, I’ve had a ter...
We like to think of ourselves as a nation of eccentrics, but some take their patriotic duties more seriously than others. Al Alvarez –...
The Sisters of Mercy, Roundhouse review - hits delivered fro...
While bands such as The Birthday Party, Siouxsie and the Banshees and, especially, Bauhaus had a hand in inventing goth music at the start of the...
Ed Byrne, Berry Theatre, Hedge End review - musing on middle...
Ed Byrne's new show takes a philosophical bent as he muses on middle age and fatherhood. But don't worry, he's not getting soft at the age of 47...
CD: The New Pornographers – In the Morse Code of Brake Light...
New Pornographer-in-chief AC Newman grew up enraptured by how much and how little...
10 Questions for conductor Charles Hazlewood
Charles Hazlewood (b. 1966) has worked across the gamut of...
Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey: She Said review – better tha...
October 5th in the United States is a day for righteous rage. In 2016 it marked the release of the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape in...