THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE LLYFR DU CYMRU FYDD / THE BLACK BOOK OF THE NEW WALES Llywelyn ap Gwilym (Y Lolfa) Who wouldn’t want to live …
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE LLYFR DU CYMRU FYDD / THE BLACK BOOK OF THE NEW WALES Llywelyn ap Gwilym (Y Lolfa) Who wouldn’t want to live …
YES DAY | FILM REVIEW Dir: Miguel Arteta (PG, 90 mins) An amiable family comedy that mostly stays away from being too annoying and twee, thanks to Jennifer Garner’s …
WOW FILM FESTIVAL: MADE IN BANGLADESH | REVIEW Dir: Rubaiyat Hossain (2019, 95 mins) Who doesn’t love a bargain? And unless you’re rich and want to pay £200 for …
THE EARTH ASLEEP | FILM REVIEW Dir: Clara Casian (unrated, 80 min) Ten years ago, the Tohoku earthquake – one of the most powerful ever recorded – happened 18 miles …
THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE THE ANCHORESS The Art Of Losing (Kscope) After enduring an intensely difficult few years rife with personal loss, Catherine Anne Davies’ …
WOW FILM FESTIVAL: FIRST WE EAT | REVIEW Dir: Suzanne Crocker (PG, 101 mins) Suzanne Crocker and her family take the decision to eat 100% local for a year, …
MOUTHPIECE | FILM REVIEW Dir: Patricia Rozema (15 ,91 mins) A deeply moving drama following Cassandra, a young woman coming to terms with her role in life and her …
THE LITTLE THINGS | FILM REVIEW Dir: John Lee Hancock (15, 122 mins) Denzel Washington’s gravitas and immense watchability adds to this police procedural, set in LA in the …
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE BOY ON FIRE: THE YOUNG NICK CAVE Mark Mordue (Allen & Unwin) With Bad Seeds gigs repeatedly pushed further into the ether …
COMING 2 AMERICA | FILM REVIEW Dir: Craig Brewster (12, 108 mins) A belated, rather unnecessary sequel to Eddie Murphy’s 1988 comedy hit about a prince from the mythical …
CHERRY | FILM REVIEW Dirs: Anthony & Joe Russo (18, 140 mins) The Russo Brothers reached new heights with Avengers: Endgame in 2019, at the time of writing declared …
POLY STYRENE: I AM A CLICHÉ | FILM REVIEW Dir: Paul Sng & Celeste Bell (89 min) We begin with the death of this film’s subject, which – if not …
THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE THE ALARM WAЯ (self-released) I love the way Mike Peters and co have put out this album. After 50 days from writing to …
THE DISSIDENT | FILM REVIEW Dir: Bryan Fogel (12A, 119 mins) The shocking death of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul’s Saudi embassy is brought to rigorous light …
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE MONOLITHIC UNDERTOW Harry Sword (White Rabbit) The essential theme of Monolithic Undertow seems obvious, once you’ve been introduced to it, but in …
NOTTURNO | FILM REVIEW Dir: Gianfranco Rosi (15, 100 mins) This immersive documentary provides glimpses into the lives of those caught up in the tragedies of the Middle East. …
EXPERIENCE: THE LUDOVICO EINAUDI STORY | PODCAST REVIEW Who could have guessed that actor Joe Dempsie would be a self-confessed superfan of Italian minimalist composer Ludovico Einaudi? The Skins …
DICKINSON | WE’VE BEEN WATCHING Recent cinematic depictions of American poet Emily Dickinson have drastically varied. Take A Quiet Passion, a film so content with the buttoned-up persona the …
BILLIE EILISH: THE WORLD’S A LITTLE BLURRY | FILM REVIEW Dir: R.J. Cutler (15, 140 mins) Billie Eilish is proving to be one of the next big stars in …
THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE BLANCK MASS In Ferneaux (Sacred Bones) In Ferneaux is very much Blanck Mass’ ‘quarantine album’. Utilising a decade’s worth of field …
THE UNITED STATES VS BILLIE HOLIDAY | FILM REVIEW Dir: Lee Daniels (15, 140 mins) Billie Holiday gets a sprawling, somewhat bloated biopic, big on period detail with a …
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH | FILM REVIEW Dir: Shaka King (15, 126 mins) Daniel Kaluuya excels in this drama about Black Panther icon Fred Hampton and the incendiary …
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE THE ECHO WIFE Sarah Gailey (Hodder & Stoughton) What would you do if you had an exact replica of yourself in front …
THE DARK AND THE WICKED | FILM REVIEW Dir: Bryan Bertino (15, 96 mins) Unsettling slow-burn horror that, like director Bryan Bertino’s earlier film The Strangers, makes the most …