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My First Summer was just one of many excellent productions on offer at this year’s BFI Flare festival. Yet writer-director Katie Found’s debut feature really stands out from the crowd, mainly because of just how […]

The Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed that COVID-19 testing or immunisation status certification, commonly referred to as ‘vaccine passports,’ may not be necessary to attend events at venues like theatres if […]

British-American rapper MF DOOM’s album Mm..Food has entered the American Billboard 200 chart for the first time since its release in 2004.

The album that features the tracks ‘Beef Rapp’ and ‘Hoe Cakes’ […]

Nothing pleases me more than pop culture discussed in a quasi-academic critical way. So, when a friend turned me on to a new podcast mini-series about Sex and The City I had a hunch it would tick all my boxes. […]

Beloved actor Paul Ritter died on Monday at the age of 54 from a brain tumour. Ritter was best known for playing the patriarch Martin in Channel 4’s hugely successful Friday Night Dinner, with Tamsin Grieg, Sim […]

As the first buds begin to bloom, nature is waking up from the cold and bestowing its beauty upon us once more. Our contributors talk through some of their favourite evocations of spring on the silver screen, […]

Southwark Playhouse is set to premiere Philip Ridley’s one-woman show Tarantula at The Little on 30 April and 1 May 2021.

Tarantula will star Georgie Henley as Toni, best known as Lucy from The Chronicles of […]

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Michael Mann’s directorial debut, Thief, a stylized thriller whose influence reverberates to this day. But beyond the film’s long-lasting appeal, its biggest con […]

It’s taken some time, but Zack Snyder’s Justice League — the director’s cut of 2017’s Justice League — is finally with us. The Snyder Cut is a phenomenon that you likely won’t have been able to ignore if you h […]

The cover of A Small Man’s England features a man, hunched over, with the St George’s flag over his back. He’s desperate, lost, and isolated. He bears a symbol with great cultural weight which hasco […]

Trigger warning: This review of Dear Dead Jason contains mention of suicide, grief, and mental health.

Jen Moss’s Dear Dead Jason is a black comedy about a young woman, Veronica (Hannah Wilder), losing her p […]

Introducing: Leo Bhanji

Hometown: LA, now London

Listen to: ‘The Wades’, ‘Blade of Hope’, ‘Heart of Gold’

It’s often said (admittedly many times by me, in this very column) that an artist is unconfined […]

Olivia Rodrigo has taken her ‘drivers license’ and is now going places in the music industry. Only three months after she broke the streaming charts with her debut single, comes the release of indie-pop song ‘de […]

“Damn the man! Save the Empire!” So floppy-haired stoner Mark shouts over the reporter who broadcasts the closure of Empire Records, an independent record store to rival any of nineties middle America. His s […]

Spotify has launched Loud & Clear, an interactive website that explains income from music streaming by “breaking down the royalty system, the players and the process”.

The company explains in a Q&A on the web […]

It is no secret that Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive to Survive has completely changed the world of motorsport. As well as bringing in a wave of new fans to Formula 1, it has allowed withstanding fans b […]

Based on a novel by the director himself, Donato Carrisi’s Into the Labyrinth is a twisty thriller that misses the mark.

After mysteriously reappearing 15 years after her abduction, Samantha Andretti […]

Coventry’s Albany Theatre has announced an eclectic summer season of performances, including both locally-produced and touring productions, ahead of the venue’s earliest reopening date of 17 May.

The new sea […]

The 1988 romantic comedy Mystic Pizza is being adapted into a stage musical, with the premiere set to take place this summer at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine.

The new production was set to be […]

On 4 April 2020, Sir Keir Starmer was elected as the new leader of the Labour party. His rise to the top came at a difficult time. The last general election had crushed Labour and disillusioned the membership. […]