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78/52

The screeching reek! reek! reek! The shadow of a kitchen knife. A naked woman in the shower. All…

By Euan Franklin
Live music

The Amazons at the Forum

Seeing The Amazons will strike many with a strong sense of nostalgia for their teenage years. Last night…

By Patrick Laredo
LFF

Downsizing

Four years after the release of Nebraska, Alexander Payne's comeback picture has been chosen to open the 74th…

By Filippo L'Astorina
LFF

You Were Never Really Here

The ghost of Taxi Driver looms large over Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, a fragmented, twitchy…

By Sam Gray
Movie

Bitch

Bitch is a dark comedy from the mind of Scottish writer/director/actor Marianna Palka, and it had its world…

By Lindsay Bellinger
Movie

The Snowman

Nordic noirs are all the rage, even more so than their American predecessors. There’s something about a snowy…

By Euan Franklin
LFF

Journeyman

The start of Journeyman makes one think actor-writer-director Paddy Considine has made a northern Rocky. Is this where…

By Euan Franklin
Play

Beginning at the National Theatre

For a play as funny as David Eldridge’s Beginning, it’s surprisingly hard to watch. Danny (Sam Troughton) is…

By Connor Campbell
LFF

The Boy Downstairs

New York City is an ideal backdrop for romcoms, from Woody Allen to Sex and the City. With…

By Catherine Sedgwick
Musical

Hair at the Vaults

Hair is a wonderfully surreal and deliciously irreverent musical that gives the audience as much nudity, drugs and…

By Sophia Moss