Arts Reviews

Academy Awards viewers have dodged a bullet

It’s a mediocre vehicle that promotes Queen’s back catalog and some contemporary virtues

Education is now the most important thing to me, and I don’t want anyone thinking it has something to do with politics

The Favourite reviewed

Four legs good, two films bad?

Another Music In A Different Kitchen and Love Bites Deluxe LPs by Buzzcocks reviewed

His films were boring, too

The director Nicolas Roeg, who died on Friday aged 90, was a master of daring, dreamlike cinema — so daring and dreamlike, in fact, that the studios often didn’t know what to do with his films. Walkabout (1971) lost money on its release, but slowly became a cult classic. Bad Timing (1980) so alarmed the … Read more

The politics of dancing

My Brilliant Friend reviewed

Outlaw King reviewed

The Front Runner reviewed

The Marvel editor-in-chief turned the superhero world upside down by introducing ironic detachment and human foibles

A Private War reviewed

The White Album is reissued at 50

It feels like a media Democrat’s idea of a shot for the sweet spot and the middle ground