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Regina Spektor at Hammersmith Apollo
"We don't need that pedal. It's the one that makes thing quieter," says Regina Spektor in finding that…
By Laura Foulgerreview
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Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
Travis Wilkerson has to do a lot with a little in this visually inventive, melancholy personal document of…
By Joseph Owen
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Mrs Fang
Wang Bing keeps things short with this affecting, unsettling portrait of a woman in the last stages of…
By Joseph Owen
Film festivals
Good Luck
Filmmaker Ben Russell has produced something extraordinary with this slow, meditative and engrossing nonfiction study of two mining…
By Joseph Owen
Food & Drink
The Gibson in Old Street: Edwardian extravagance with a modern spin
The Gibson is a lot of things. At first sight it’s an Edwardian-themed parlour, its menu sporting an…
By Virginia Clark
Play
Camden Fringe Festival 2017: Secrets at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre
Anthology performances are tricky propositions, inviting the audience to pick and choose a favourite, or simply clock out…
By Jonathan Mahon-Heap
Movie
Shin Godzilla
While Western audiences laugh at the infamous monster, Ishirō Honda’s classic 1954 Gojira, made just nine years after…
By Olivia Cal
Film festivals
9 Doigts (9 Fingers)
This is a frighteningly juvenile, pretentious piece of work from 61-year-old writer and director C J Ossang. What…
By Joseph Owen
Film festivals
Goliath
Dominik Locher’s Goliath acts as a fictional and far more cautionary counterpart to Denis Côté’s bodybuilding documentary A…
By Joseph Owen
Musical
Camden Fringe Festival 2017: Making Waves: A Song Cycle at the Hen and Chickens Theatre
Making Waves: A Song Cycle is an hour-long series of original songs, produced as part of the 12th…
By Vicky Munro