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Vincent River (The Curators) – theatre review

Vincent River is not a location; it is the name of the character at the centre of Philip Ridley’s powerful…

I Am Greta – movie review

Greta Thunberg is a piercingly direct and effective communicator and yet she's a teenager and has Asperger’s syndrome. She's both…

Hope Gap – movie review

She, Grace (Annette Bening) is intelligent, strong willed, heavily opinionated, volatile and fearsome – a force of nature. He, Edward…

Irresistible – movie review

I don't often get excited about politics. I mean, look at the state of political discourse in this country! But…

Dead Man in a Ditch (Luke Arnold) – book review

Hot on the heels of his high fantasy meets urban fantasy meets noir detective debut The Last Smile in Sunder…

Savage – movie review

Savage is brutal, devastating, powerful. It features a war of attrition borne of a tyrannical upbringing in New Zealand told…

Lucky Grandma – movie review

In New York, a crotchety, chain-smoking Chinese-American grandmother gets lucky after leaving a casino … and then all hell breaks…

Miss Juneteenth – movie review

Turquoise Jones (Nicole Beharie) works hard – in a bar and at a mortuary – to keep her head above…

The Thursday Murder Club (Richard Osman) – book review

The British crime fiction industry is a little obsessed with the elderly solving crimes. Going back to the seemingly doddering…

Either Side of Midnight (Benjamin Stevenson) – book review

Benjamin Stevenson's first book featuring documentary maker Jack Quick was a revelation, particularly when considered again, in hindsight, from the…