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Last weekend, my mother produced a dinner including a side of boiled broccoli which was enveloped in a sickly yellow hue. Tinges of this shade on every floret, in an attempt to hide its age. This was not a rare […]

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK government has shown a growing contempt towards the arts as restrictions and lockdowns have continued to put theatres, cinemas, museums, galleries, and gig venues under […]

Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes is an unrivalled choreographic triumph. Having seen the performance live in December 2019 (before the pandemic closed theatre doors), I was pleasantly surprised at how well the s […]

John Kampfner’s Why The Germans Do It Better is an engaging account of German history, culture and national identity. Though wide-ranging in its subject matter, the book’s chief ambition is for other count […]

The Recce boasts stylish filmmaking and a clear sense of tension—but it lets the genre do all the heavy lifting, writes Mischa Alexander.

There’s a lot that can be appealing about war films: immediate ten […]

Flux Pavilion’s debut album Tesla was a blended mixture of darkened EDM and electronic music. His latest album .wav gives us more of the artist’s abilities and musicality in rhythm, storytelling and talent.

It […]

The latest act to feature on NPR’s ‘Tiny Desk (Home) Concert’ is Miley Cyrus, with her rendition of Mazzy Star’s ‘Fade Into You’. The singer also performed ‘Prisoner’ and ‘Golden G-String’–the closing track from […]

Whether it’s on or off-screen, the COVID-19 pandemic is being depicted in a number of ways. Before television shows started incorporating the pandemic, our only view was through the news. 

With increased sc […]

Cats (2019) is a bad movie. You know it’s bad. You might not have seen it, but you know it’s bad. Everyone and their mum have bellowed from the rooftops about it. Whether about the disturbing CGI child-mice, the […]

Amid the news that Glastonbury has been cancelled yet again, co-organiser Emily Eavis has announced plans to still work on Glastonbury-related projects throughout the year—including potential livestreamed e […]

Liverpudlian five piece Paris Youth Foundation have released their first single of 2021, ‘The Back Seat’. The track is a sort of sequel to previous singles, ‘Home Is Where The Heart Is’ and ‘Late Night Lost L […]

It’s dull. It’s academic. It’s pretentious pish-posh. These are some of the stereotypes people associate with literary theory and criticism. Freud is about the only exception to the rule because at least he tal […]

Adding fuel to the fire of anticipation of their second LP Who Am I (out 12 February), Pale Waves have released the record’s third single ‘You Don’t Own Me’. A fervent, guitar-driven cut, in just over three minu […]

The Garfield Weston Foundation has awarded grants to over one hundred arts organisations, with a combined total of more than £30 million being distributed across a diverse array of projects.

The Weston […]

When David Fincher’s adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl was released, it was praised as a manifesto to modern feminism. Many critics hailed it as revolutionary in female storytelling. Emily Van Werff at Vox […]

Last weekend, BBC Radio 2 celebrated all things musical theatre, playing hours upon hours of the nation’s favourite show-tunes. During the show, musical theatre royalty Elaine Page OBE announced the top twenty g […]

The finalists have been announced for the 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

Over 160 international pieces were nominated with just 10 making it to the final. The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize celebrates Women+ […]

Since his debut in 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones has been a staple of the pop-culture world. As is always the case with a popular franchise, Indiana Jones saw his fair share of spin-offs (The […]

I see my dad every day. We say good morning and get on with our work for the day. We say good night and go to sleep.

I’m so used to seeing him that I never really noticed that he’d aged.

But that all cha […]

The cancellation of the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina was a blow to its fans. We all sat and wondered: how could a show like Riverdale be renewed for more chaotic seasons, and problematic film series with no […]