Album
Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending
After 15 years, it feels like the good old Franz Ferdinand are back, as they return with their…
By Ella Navarroreview
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Movie
Game Night
Over the last few years, American studio comedies have taken a break from quality. We’re given the odd…
By Euan Franklin
Play
Foul Pages at the Hope Theatre
The Hope Theatre’s sixth in-house production, Robin Hooper’s Foul Pages directed by Matthew Parker, is a charmingly outrageous, bawdy…
By Catherine Sedgwick
Play
Picnic at Hanging Rock at the Barbican
Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel about the disappearance of three schoolgirls and their teacher holds a position of cult…
By Laura Foulger
Live music
Public Access TV at Oslo Hackney for NME Awards Shows 2018
At first sight, Public Access TV may seem like any group of run-of-the-mill rock-revival lads, complete with leather…
By Ed Barnes
Movie
Mute
Although a highly anticipated follow up feature for talented director Duncan Jones, with Mute the low-brow/big-budget Netflix Original powerhouse…
By Chloe Sizer
Berlinale
Yardie
A vague suspicion of familiarity is possible when reading a synopsis for Idris Elba’s 1980s-set directorial debut. A…
By Oliver Johnston
Play
A Passage to India at Park Theatre
EM Forster’s elegant prose style, one of the greatest features of his work, is always going to be…
By Juliet Evans
Berlinale
Touch Me Not
Intimacy and sex are essentials parts of finding happiness in life. Over time, it is common to become…
By Sean Gallen
Berlinale
Aufbruch (Departure)
Art tends to focus on themes of youth – the wonders of beauty, finding an identity and growing…
By Sean Gallen