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I Care a Lot reviewed
Activist demands will destroy museums — and make us all poorer
I hope the banjoist is now free to reveal publicly how the industry operates these days
Do today’s players care if orcs are racist?
The Woman in the Window reviewed
Why does no one talk about how most artistic careers end in failure?
New Woman Behind the Camera brings together the whimsical and the confrontational to show how modernism shaped photography
Dismissed as a dime-store Shostakovich, then praised as a major modern composer
The enduring popularity of the Vacation series reflects not just the American appetite for travel, but also that old American virtue of gung-ho optimism
Stone Cold was foul-mouthed, sadistic and mean — and people loved him
A forthcoming George Harrison box set will sell for $1,000. Do we still love the Beatles enough to care?
A lot of Inside is not even attempting to be funny
The much-hyped comeback was a waste of time
Perhaps the real secret to the song’s eternal popularity is that it taps into our modern obsession with feeling good about ourselves
Video killed the video store
No matter his personal woes, Evans almost always vouchsafed his listeners something not merely to dig but to cherish
Bad politics often make good art. That’s especially true when the art is tasked with making sense of political senselessness
The Morrison cancel mob are dancing to the tune of the oligarchy that is trashing American democracy
Hawkwind played notes from underground, but they had a global influence
Diversity drama at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association could prove fatal
Everything seemed so dated
Still, I hope he kills it
Castellano and Castaldo descended upon Narrowsburg with a gust of wind, declaring that they would open an acting school, start a film festival and make it ‘the Sundance of the East’
For those of us who have followed Korean film for many years, the triumph of Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden or the living-dead series Kingdom on Netflix came as no surprise
For Cousteau, scientific investigation, combined with the potential for good image-making, presented an unavoidable hazard to sea life
In the Eighties, Japan had prosperity, optimism, loads of bizarre porn and the solace of technological gadgetry
How do you rein in the overactive bits of Manfred Honeck’s imagination without driving him away?
Part of what makes them special is the depth of their catalog
Hats off to the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond. They’ve discovered a new form of racism. Some people say we have enough ethnic division already but in south-west London they’re gagging for more apparently. A new play, Prodigal, examines the prejudice endured by a Ugandan chap whose mother moved to London when he was a