Movie
Mad Max: Fury Road
It’s been 30 years since Beyond Thunderdome and it seems things haven’t improved a great deal for the…
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Published articles
Movie
Big Game
Tongue-in-cheek action is something of a tightrope these days it seems. Gone are the days of Cliffhanger, Total…
By Tom Halbert
Movie
Bad Land: Road to Fury
Welcome to the future. The rain hasn’t fallen for years now; water has become a precious commodity protected…
By Tom Halbert
Live music
Emilie Nicolas at the Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen
Of all the talented Nordic artists to emerge over the last couple of years, it is Emilie Nicolas…
By Tom Halbert
Live music
Philip Glass: The Études at the Barbican
The Études is a culmination of a project stretching from 1994 to 2013, presented by Pomegranate Arts and…
By Tom Halbert
Live music
5ive at Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Cast your mind back to a time when mobile phones were still strong enough to drive nails and…
By Tom Halbert
Tribeca Film Festival
Necktie Youth
If you were to rely solely on films such as Tsotsi for a view of Johannesburg, your impression…
By Tom Halbert
Play
The Lady’s Not for Walking like an Egyptian at The Albany
Rachel Mars and nat tarrab (sic), collectively Mars.tarrab, return to the stage once more with a revised version…
By Tom Halbert
Play
Bridlington at the Rosemary Branch
Peter Hamilton’s latest play, presented through his own Clockhouse Theatre Company, is an affectionate and often darkly humorous…
By Tom Halbert