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Alison Moore loves Sherwood Andersons Adventure

Kate Tempest’s angry, heartfelt, sing-song performance style and allusive, pulsating writing come together to create poetry that’s literary, musical and mesmerising. We talk to her ...

by Greg Page | February 1, 2013March 1, 2019
Arts & Culture

Death: A self portrait at the Wellcome Collection

One of the most resonating questions I was left pondering over was of representation. In many respects the contemplations of death, the associated images, the ...

by Tristam Vivian Adams | February 1, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture, Projections: Going to the Cinema Alone

Don McCullin in the Snow

Outside Leicester Square tube station tourists were tramping down Charing Cross Road as usual, and all the snow turned instantly to mush. I slid down ...

by Philip Maughan | January 25, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

Letting Slip the Dogs of War: Julius Caesar at the Donmar Warehouse

The current production of Julius Caesar at the Donmar Warehouse is a curious creature. In what could be seen as a move specifically designed to ...

by Michael Reffold | January 24, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

The Master and Margarita at the Barbican Theatre

To read, The Master and Margarita is a stunning yet at times bewildering novel. The very fact that it has ever been adapted for the ...

by Thomas Chadwick | January 23, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

Feature Film: The Impossible

Basing a film on real-life events always leaves it open to charges of inaccuracy, insensitivity and imbalance, especially when that event is the 2004 tsunami ...

by Ben Fowler | January 16, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

Feature Film: Les Misérables

The film is a visual and musical epic, a feast for the senses that does the stage show proud. The only negative thing that might ...

by Sandra Smiley | January 15, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

Documentary: Cotton for my Shroud

It strikes me that the film, Cotton for my Shroud, has an ominous title with various connotations. The word “shroud” refers to a cloth used ...

by Becky Ayre | January 14, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

When Books Become Sculpture and Imagination Takes the Reins

I’m trying not to press my nose against the glass like a child outside a sweet shop, but it’s hard because I feel a bit ...

by Laura Gavin | January 12, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

Feature Film: Madame Brouette

In 2009, the film critic Danny Leigh wrote a fantastic piece in the Guardian on the lack of African cinema enjoyed in British cinemas. It ...

by Bea Moyes | January 11, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture, Projections: Going to the Cinema Alone

Other People

Of all the irritations of the cinema, other people are the worst. A modern cinema audience may chatter, eat, obscure the view, throw litter, snore ...

by Philip Maughan | January 11, 2013June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

Homegrown and Full of Potential: The Most Incredible Nothing

I chanced upon the event listing while browsing the venue’s website and the narrative immediately roused my interest: an imagined future dystopia where stories are ...

by Michael Reffold | January 8, 2013June 7, 2013
Arts & Culture

“Don’t you love farce?” The Magistrate as tragi-comic hero at the National Theatre

For an abject lesson in how to stage a classic farce, you could do a lot worse than the National Theatre’s current production of Arthur ...

by Michael Reffold | December 28, 2012June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture, Projections: Going to the Cinema Alone

The Showcase Cinema, Teesside.

The last time I went to the Showcase, a 14-screen multiplex alongside a dual carriageway just outside Middlesbrough, I was two feet shorter and a ...

by Philip Maughan | December 21, 2012June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

Artists’ Film: Under the Cranes

Cities are challenging: to live in and to define. They are each a unique life form constructed from many smaller ones. For some they are ...

by Becky Ayre | December 10, 2012June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture, Projections: Going to the Cinema Alone

The Hackney Picturehouse

The Hackney Picturehouse is a marvel. Particularly on a Sunday morning, when the weather is cold and bright in the way that one imagines Sweden ...

by Philip Maughan | December 7, 2012June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

Feature Film: White Material

There’s a scene early on in Claire Denis’ tenth film in which a child soldier fingers a cheap-looking gold lighter and refers to it as ...

by Ben Fowler | December 6, 2012June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

Feature Film: Amour

As I was heading through the rain to see Michael Haneke’s latest film, Amour, I sent a text to a friend that read, ‘Off to ...

by Joanna Pocock | December 5, 2012June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture

Beatrice Gibson: The Tiger’s Mind

Beatrice Gibson’s The Tiger’s Mind is a film that explores voice, speech, representation, fiction and narrative. The film, shot in 16mm and transferred to High ...

by Tristam Vivian Adams | November 26, 2012June 4, 2013
Arts & Culture, Projections: Going to the Cinema Alone

Projections: Going to the Cinema Alone

I am a man of many rituals. One is that I like to go for a jog, or at least a walk, before I write ...

by Philip Maughan | November 23, 2012June 4, 2013