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Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things at National Portrait Gallery

A hundred years ago, a glittering generation of young aristocrats and artists came into Britain’s collective consciousness. Unencumbered by the horrors of the Great...

BalletBoyz Deluxe at Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage

Catherine Sedgwick

The Chairman in Hong Kong: Traditional Cantonese food at its best

Alex Julie Woods

Ten albums you don’t want to miss this month – March 2020

Fire Will Come

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Cinema
The English Game
★★★★★

With football removed from the scene in the current climate, Netflix brings us what it...

Guy Lambert 30^th March
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Shows & On Demand
The Letter for the King
★★★★★

The Letter for the King is another medievalesque fantasy series, based on the 1962 novel...

Bev Lung 30^th March
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Shows & On Demand
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam CJ Walker
★★★★★

Life is beautiful for those who dare to dream. Haircare entrepreneur Sarah Walker (Octavia Spencer)...

Ghazaleh Golpira 30^th March
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Shows & On Demand
Tales from the Loop
★★★★★

Television has evolved beyond the scope of a team of writers sitting in a studio...

Kari Megeed 30^th March

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Movie review
The Whalebone Box
★★★★★

As its title suggests, Andrew Kötting’s new avant-garde documentary is centred around a mysterious box...

Emma-Jane Betts
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Movie review
System Crasher (Systemsprenger)
★★★★★

Nora Fingscheidt’s System Crasher is a lesson in love and tenderness expressed through emotionally explosive...

Lora Maslenitsyna
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Movie review
The Perfect Candidate
★★★★★

The Perfect Candidate is a meditation on the contrasts and conflicts in modern day Saudi...

Emily Harrison
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Movie review
The Occupant
★★★★★

Javier’s interview is going well. The interviewers are familiar with his work and defer to...

Christopher Shrimpton

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Theatre
BalletBoyz Deluxe at Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage
★★★★★

Edgy, moody and stylish, Maxine Doyle’s exceptional Bradley 418 – the first act of Sadler’s...

Catherine Sedgwick 30^th March
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Theatre
Get your theatre fix in isolation: The best places to stream theatre online

With the world shut down for the foreseeable future, some companies and theatres are offering...

Connor Campbell 23^rd March
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Theatre
Blithe Spirit at the Duke of York’s Theatre
★★★★★

In Blithe Spirit, novelist Charles and second wife Ruth are haunted by the ghost of...

Jonathan Marshall 17^th March
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Theatre
“I love people leaving the theatre having learned something new”: An interview with City of Angels actor Rob Houchen

Playing Jimmy Powers and Dr Mandril in the dazzling revival of West End musical City...

Catherine Sedgwick 17^th March

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Food & Drinks
The Chairman in Hong Kong: Traditional Cantonese food at its best
★★★★★

Located down a sleepy road in Sheung Wan lies The Chairman – a restaurant that...

Alex Julie Woods 25^th March
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Food & Drinks
Vea in Hong Kong: Chinese ingredients and French techniques for an experience not to be missed
★★★★★

Hiding on the 30th floor of an unassuming building in Sheung Wan is Vea, a...

Alex Julie Woods 23^rd March
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Food & Drinks
Fine-dining restaurants in London switch to delivering to your doorstep

The hospitality industry is currently facing the hardest challenges that it has ever encountered before....

The editorial unit 20^th March
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Food & Drinks
Dining in London during the coronavirus crisis: A guide to eating out and in

Our society is going through a very difficult time and one of the most affected...

The editorial unit 17^th March

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Album review
Ten albums you don’t want to miss this month – March 2020

Yumi Zouma – Truth & Consequences This album is what we so desperately need in...

Grace Walsh 23^rd March
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Album review
Coldplay – Everyday Life: The band’s most ambitious work to date
★★★★★

Everyday Life is Coldplay’s most ambitious work to date. And a grower. For the first...

Filippo L'Astorina, the Editor 28^th November
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Album review
Sir-Vere – Psychoballisticfunk
★★★★★

Describing themselves as “the living embodiment of the dance/rock revolution”, Sir-Vere finally bless the digital...

Michael Higgs 12^th October
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Album review
Lara Smiles – All for You
★★★★★

At times, you come across an emerging artist with such virtuosity, such mindbogglingly obvious skill,...

Michael Higgs 1^st October

Feature of the week

Five hobbies you can enjoy at home

Coronavirus has forced everyone to stay at home. Most countries have enforced lockdowns and curfews to prevent...

Tech, Games & Sport

How a VPN works

In today’s world of technological advancement, more than four billion individuals surf the internet daily. What most...