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latest music reviews
Christine & The Queens Chris
While continental artists were once seen as something of a joke in English-speaking territories, today France’s Héloïse Letissier is one... read more
Suede The Blue Hour
Of all the reunions of the last decade or so, Suede’s return has been one of the most successful, with... read more
Villagers The Art of Pretending to Swim
Conor O’Brien’s previous album as Villagers, 2015’s Darling Arithmetic, was a low-key, mostly acoustic affair. Three years on, and the... read more
Orbital Monsters Exist
Six years after Orbital’s last album, Wonky, and four years after they split (like, properly, forever), the Hartnoll brothers are... read more
latest film reviews
Mary And The Witch’s Flower
Like Studio Ghibli films Howl’s Moving Castle, Arrietty and When Marnie Was There, this animation from director Hiromasa ‘Maro’ Yonebayashi is another example of the way that Japanese animation has drawn from British children’s’ literature and remade it in its own magical manner. This is based on a 1971 book... read more
Redoubtable
Michel Hazanavicius has based a career around celebrating movies. His early films OSS 117: Cairo, Nest Of Spies and OSS 117: Lost In Rio were spy parodies, but his last film saw him up his game considerably: a paean to silent movies, The Artist won Best Director and Best Picture... read more
Mary Shelley
The previous film from Saudi born director Haifaa al-Mansour was Wadjda – a coming of age drama about a 10 year-old girl growing up in the suburbs of Riyadh. So initially she appears an interesting choice to take on a biopic about the life of the 19th century author of... read more
