Review at a glance T remendous blues and gospel voices buoy up this oddball musical, which maps a fairytale of sisterhood onto the brutal realities of the racist American south in 1964. Adapted from the 2001 bestseller by Sue Monk Kidd, and first staged in New York in 2019, theContinue Reading
The Rossettis were a “weird” bunch, said Melanie McDonagh in the Evening Standard. Born in London to Italian political exiles and raised to be “precocious artists and poets”, they were a major fixture of Victorian Britain’s cultural landscape. Dante Gabriel (1828-82), a painter, would become the co-founder and de factoContinue Reading
The two teams are locked in what looks a three-way battle with Manchester United in their attempts to secure Champions League qualification. Spurs trail Eddie Howe’s side by three points having played a game more than Newcastle but could move back into fourth with a win at St James’ Park.Continue Reading
It’s not just tens of thousands of classic films being left behind by the move to ditch DVDs—it’s people too.Continue Reading
The Twilight saga, the teen vampire romance films that became one of the world’s major talking points in the late Noughties, coming only second, perhaps, to the US election race and Obama’s accession, is going to be remade into a TV series. The news has, predictably, caused a firestorm online,Continue Reading
The RSC has reopened its refurbished Swan Theatre with an eagerly anticipated adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel Hamnet, said Sam Marlowe in The Stage. As “snug and supple” a fit for the Stratford stage as one of the bespoke gloves made by William Shakespeare’s bullying father, it imagines theContinue Reading
Josephine Hart’s 1991 novel Damage was the Fifty Shades of its day, “only much darker and much more elegantly written”, said Helen Brown in The Daily Telegraph. It was made into a film starring Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche, and now Netflix has turned it into a four-part TV seriesContinue Reading
The winner of a Sony World Photography Award has rejected the prize after it emerged that he created his image using artificial intelligence (AI). German artist Boris Eldagsen won the creative category of the prestigious competition with a black and white computer-generated portrait of two women, titled Pseudomnesia: The Electrician. Continue Reading
S tephen King is back in the news, this time because The Boogeyman, an upcoming film adaptation of one of his short stories, was apparently so frightening that it had to be recut. “The first time you see the creature, the audience screamed so loud,” said director Rob Savage toContinue Reading
Damon Lindelof’s new Peacock series is about a tech-averse nun on a quest for the Holy Grail. And that’s the least zany thing about it.Continue Reading
