Film festivals
Seeds of Deceit
There are a million reasons that compel people to have children, but on a base level this drive…
By Sean GallenSpecial
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Film festivals
4 Feet High
The annual Sundance Film Festival showcases some of the most creative, radical and stimulating independent audio-visual work in…
By Musanna Ahmed
Film festivals
Mayday
Mayday – from feature debutant Karen Cinorre – is a film full of ideas, although, perhaps too many.…
By Jacob Kennedy
Film festivals
Pleasure
Following a short of the same title in 2013, Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure is a purposefully uncomfortable perspective on…
By Georgia Howlett
Film festivals
Prime Time
There’s something miraculous – and unsettling – about the hostage film genre. At the beginning of the new…
By Jacob Kennedy
Live music
Live from the Barbican: SEED Ensemble and guests
It might not feel like there’s much to celebrate these days, apart from a new item on the…
By Dan Meier
Live music
Live from the Barbican: Shabaka Hutchings and Britten Sinfonia
Winner of a MOBO Award, the Paul Hamlyn Composer Award and Jazz Innovation awards from Jazz FM, the…
By Catherine Sedgwick
LFF
Lovers Rock
Following the premiere of Mangrove, the first part of Steve McQueen’s episodic Small Axe anthology, at London Film…
By Guy Lambert
LFF
Nomadland
Nomadland is the third feature from Chinese writer-director Chloé Zhao, inspired by 2017 non-fiction work Nomadland: Surviving America…
By Sarah Bradbury
LFF
African Apocalypse
Life, the saying goes, is supposed to be stranger than fiction. But African Apocalypse – the latest documentary…
By Andrew Murray