Culture
The rise of genre fluidity: Is this the death of genre as we know it?
My favourite genre of music: a question I’ve found becoming increasingly difficult to answer over the years, and it’s only now that I’m discovering why. Whilst we may not...
Memory and Narrative in Miguel Gomes’ Tabu
"Now approaching the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, I return to Miguel Gomes’ 2012 feature Tabu."
Review: ‘The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States, and the Middle East 1979-2003’ by Steve Coll
Tyrants should only be brought down by their own people; they become martyrs when brought down by foreigners.
Self-Portrait of a Stranger: A Review of Frank Auerbach’s Charcoal Portraits
The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition, The Charcoal Heads, shows the early career of Frank Auerbach...
Florence and The Machine: Dance Fever Tour Review
"It takes a powerful vulnerability to shoulder the burdens and joys of helping others, through art or any other means. Welch does it beautifully"
Jockstrap Live at The Bullingdon
"I’m convinced they have one true goal... to ensure that you have an obscene amount of fun"
Voëlvry: South African’s Rock’n’Roll Revolution
"The Voëlvry artists clearly aimed to provide an example of a way to be both distinctly Afrikaans and disagree with the conservative government"
Éric Rohmer: A French Director’s Refreshing Simplicity
"His films are not as stunning, nor impressive, as might be those of his Nouvelle Vague contemporaries, but peacefully pleasant."
RUSH! Hour: Måneskin In Review
"RUSH! is proof that Måneskin’s stratospheric rise to prominence is backed up by more than just sex appeal and the glitzy glamour of Eurovision."
Netflix’s Disappointing Monsters
"As the latest season of Stranger Things demonstrates... not all practical effects are made equal."
‘Thamesis’ Interview: “The most refreshing thing you’ll see in Oxford drama.”
"I've never seen or heard anything like it."
A list of brilliant things about ‘Every Brilliant Thing’
"This performance... is likely to have made a lasting impression on every single person who has watched it."
Review: Entertaining Mr Sloane
"Brook’s production moved between playing the world for laughs and playing it real enough that the audience was left with lingering unease."
Review: Black Blood
"The most interesting elements of the play are the characters themselves, and their relationships outside the murder plot."
Review: I Will Delete This Story
"I found that I Will Delete This Story left me wishing that the titular promise had already been fulfilled."
In Conversation With Velvet
"If you haven’t heard of them, you should have."
“A fantastic story of love and liberation”: An interview with the cast and director of ‘An American In Paris’
"It’s been a process of figuring out how we can tease out those themes of love and liberation."
On Russian History
"The concern with history as a way of understanding the past purveys much of this book."
