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It is not often that I come across a film, complex and uncomfortable in so many ways. A film I replay …

Jehnny Beth ‘To Love is to Live’ review: worthwhile art pop

Jehnny Beth’s solo work has divided fans of her UK band Savages. Led by Beth (real name Camille Berthomier), Savages …

Why would anyone – whatever gender – choose to wear unwalkable-stiletto-heeled shoes when at work, as a journalist, conducting an …

If not for the Covid-19 pandemic which has shut down live performance around the world, May 2020 would be the …

Mark Lanegan is one of the most prolific singer-songwriters working today. His main vehicle is his eponymous band (with whom …

Filmmaker Romaan Asche likes people who grind – in a work sense, that is. (We don’t discuss her dancing preferences.) Asche …

Those of us looking for some comfort viewing that also teaches us something about life could do far worse than …

“In the cinema of my childhood, it always smells of piss,” ageing filmmaker Salvador Mallo says at one point in Pain …

The Adelaide Festival ran from February 28 – March 15, 2020. In this postcard HUMPHREY BOWER reviews Almeida Theatre’s The …

Crime novels are the most borrowed books in libraries. Ingenious plotting attracts readers and so too, it seems, does violence. …