THE MILKMAID | FILM REVIEW
THE MILKMAID | FILM REVIEW Dir: Desmond Ovbiagele (136 mins) There’s a scene in director Desmond Ovbiagele’s The Milkmaid where a sub-Saharan village wedding celebration is interrupted by an …
THE MILKMAID | FILM REVIEW Dir: Desmond Ovbiagele (136 mins) There’s a scene in director Desmond Ovbiagele’s The Milkmaid where a sub-Saharan village wedding celebration is interrupted by an …
THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE DIVIDE AND DISSOLVE Gas Lit (Invada) A reminder nothing exists in a vacuum, Gas Lit, and the music of Divide And …
THE DIG | FILM REVIEW Dir: Simon Stone (12A, 112 mins) The excavation of Sutton Hoo near Ipswich in 1938 is made dramatic gold in this deeply affecting historical …
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE THE AMAZINGLY ASTONISHING STORY Lucy Gannon (Seren) There can’t be many people brave enough to call their memoir The Amazingly Astonishing Story, …
CENTRAL PARK | WE’VE BEEN WATCHING Bob’s Burgers by Loren Bouchard is widely regarded as one of the better American TV animations in recent years. With Central Park – …
SOUND OF METAL | FILM REVIEW Dir: Darius Marder (15, 120 mins) Riz Ahmed is fantastic as a drummer losing his hearing in this immersive, searching quest for identity …
THE SERPENT | WE’VE BEEN WATCHING This stylish dramatisation tells the twisted tale of Charles Sobhraj, at one time Interpol’s most wanted man but now a septuagenarian living out …
SONGBIRD | FILM REVIEW Dir: Adam Mason (15, 84 mins) A film about a coronavirus mutation and a continuation of the pandemic to an even worse state of affairs …
BIRACIAL BRITAIN: A DIFFERENT WAY OF LOOKING AT RACE | BOOK REVIEW Remi Adekoya (Constable) Biracial people are the fastest growing minority group in Britain, with one in three …
THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE HERE LIES MAN Ritual Divination (RidingEasy) Here Lies Man, the Los Angeles-based combo made up of members of Antibalas, have been …
THE WHITE TIGER | FILM REVIEW Dir: Ramin Bahrani (15, 125 mins) Based on the Booker prize-winning novel by Aravind Adiga, this urgent examination on inequality and aspiration in …
LOCKDOWN WALES: HOW COVID-19 TESTED WALES | BOOK REVIEW Will Hayward (Seren) Written, says its author, as “an aid for people in Wales to understand what has happened to …
RECENT WELSH MUSIC YOU MAY HAVE MISSED | REVIEW Beginning this column, and thereby 2021, with an album which isn’t entirely recent at all, thus priming you for a …
ICEBOUND: SHIPWRECKED AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD | BOOK REVIEW Andrea Pitzer (Simon & Schuster) We know much about Scott Of The Antarctic, but William Barents barely gets a …
WANDAVISION | WE’VE BEEN WATCHING I’ll confess, I have little interest in superhero properties. Whilst I wouldn’t go as far as Scorsese’s views on the genre, I find the …
ALL ON THE BOARD | BOOK REVIEW Ian Redpath & Jeremy Chopra (Yellow Kite) On the most lonesome dog’s dinner of a day, the uplifting words written with a …
RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE UK: SERIES 2, EPISODE 1 | WE’VE BEEN WATCHING Jamie Rees tunes into the launch of the second season of the transatlantic transplant of the show …
THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE CASPER CLAUSEN Better Way (City Slang) Better Way is the debut solo album from Casper Clausen, perhaps best known as the …
THE BEATLES: ILLUSTRATED LYRICS | BOOK REVIEW Welbeck Publishing The 40th anniversary of John Lennon’s untimely death passed last month, just days before Paul McCartney released a new album. …
THE PEMBROKESHIRE MURDERS | WE’VE BEEN WATCHING Jamie Rees waxes lyrical about the latest slice of gritty Welsh true crime drama, where a double killing out west 30 years …
LET LOVE RULE | BOOK REVIEW Lenny Kravitz with David Ritz (Little, Brown) Here is something to spend those book vouchers on: the multi-talented Lenny Kravitz’s autobiography, whose soul …
CHRIS BIRD-JONES: WE ARE ALL FRAGILE | ART REVIEW If there was an award for the exhibition title which most perfectly captures the mood of the present moment, then …
PIECES OF A WOMAN | FILM REVIEW Dir: Kornel Mundruczo (15, 127 mins) A gruelling examination of childbirth and tragedy, with brilliant performances and a 25-minute, one-take scene near …
SHIRLEY | FILM REVIEW Dir: Josephine Decker (15, 107 mins) Author Shirley Jackson, the mind behind The Haunting Of Hill House, gets an experimental biopic reflecting her life via …