Album
PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old Year Dying
PJ Harvey’s tenth studio album is her first in seven years. It marks a reconnection with music following…
By Jessica Wallfeatured
Latest
Film festivals
Scrapper
Scrapper is the bittersweet British indie feature that marks writer-director Charlotte Regan’s cinematic debut. It combines bleak realism…
By Mersa Auda
Play
Beneatha’s Place at the Young Vic
Beneatha's Place is a remarkable play written and directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah, delving into the complexities of post-colonial…
By Natallia Pearmain
Movie
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Dead Reckoning Part One, is the seventh in the Mission: Impossible franchise. Its title already pre-announces an eighth…
By Mersa Auda
Musical
Crazy for You at the Gillian Lynne Theatre
It was an apprehensive audience that filed into the Gillian Lynne Theatre. Would this revival of a 1992…
By Will Snell
Cinema & TV
Mediterrane Film Festival: A chat with Eric Bana, Jared Harris and David Walliams at Malta’s new festival
Launched for 2023, the Mediterrane Film Festival is an annual collaboration between the MED9 countries – Croatia, Cyprus,…
By Ezelle Alblas
Art
A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography at Tate Modern
This exhibition, curated by Osei Bonsu, brings together 150 works by 36 African photographers from multiple generations. It’s…
By Jessica Wall
Movie
Wham!
Wham!, as the name suggests, is a documentary about the titular English pop duo, George Michael and Andrew…
By Umar Ali
Cinema & TV
“It’s more overtly political than the film was – but I think that’s the right choice, given where we’re at as a society and as a country”: Andrew Chaplin and Wim Snape on The Full Monty
Back in 1997, a bunch of unemployed Sheffield-based steel workers preparing to take their kit off for extra…
By Sarah Bradbury
Live music
Jody Talbot’s Everest with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican
Mount Everest: the summit of the world. It is the mountaineer’s ultimate prize and has claimed hundreds of…
By Will Snell