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By Matt Trueman Pity those parents with inquisitive kids, for they shall be faced with a barrage of whys after the Royal Court’s first ever…
By Matt Trueman Pity those parents with inquisitive kids, for they shall be faced with a barrage of whys after the Royal Court’s first ever…
By Brenda Stones This debut novel comes loaded with accolades; already the book covers and the author’s websites are stashed with tributes: the next Steinbeck,…
The scariest movie I watched in my childhood was definitely “Alien.” As I grew up, I watched it several more times, and although I still…
By Nicky Charlish Books do furnish a room. They also furnish impressions, and not always positive ones. The title of this one summons up the…
By Richard Swan From the time the human species developed eyes, we have stared up at the skies and speculated about the stars and the…
By Matt Trueman Matilda’s got its own Spiderman in the first five minutes: a spoilt brat in crude, homemade fancy dress. The RSC’s homegrown musical…
By Nicky Charlish Every crime writer sets his or her fictional detective some challenges to face. With this book, she sets herself one, too: how…
By Sam Burt The 21st century will be Asia’s century, but it won’t necessarily be an Asian century; this seems to be the take-home message…
By Valentine Rossetti Persian director and pioneer of Iranian new wave cinema Abbas Kiarostami graces the silver screen with his oeuvre once more. Not since…
By Luke Gittos The upcoming general election will see the political class fighting for the attention of voters who appear to have given up on…
By Alicia Rudd From its initial façade, the latest novel by international best-selling author Anne Rice carries the attractive promise of being a ‘dark gothic…
By Chris Sims ‘Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true,’ writes Proust in Remembrance of Things Past.…
By Dan Schneider Barbara Kopple is one of those filmmakers who can do just about any film well. And so much so that when she…
By Tara McCormack The other day on the train, I came across a copy of the Daily Express. It is not a paper I normally…
By Jane Turner The Importance of Being Earnest was the first and is also sadly, the last play to be performed in the basement of…
By Mike Jakeman Until the triumphant return of Jonathan Franzen in the autumn, it seemed that Christos Tsiolkas’ novel, The Slap, was a contender for…
The subject of mental disorders has long become a niche for all kinds of thriller and horror movies. Roughly 80% of movies dedicated to this…
spring breeze . . . a new nun shivers in the cloister © Marina Balmaceda Paredes We start with a kigo, or seasonal reference. A…
If you watch movies filmed in different parts of the world, you might notice that each region, be it America, Europe, or Asia, puts its…
Morcheeba is one of those bands that does not have to be introduced, but here you go: this British band, founded in a distant 1995…