Review at a glance “ You couldn’t make it up!” would be the standard newspaperly thing to say about the fate of Volodymyr Zelensky. A comic actor; the winner of the Ukrainian version of Strictly; the Ukrainian voice of Paddington Bear: this is the man whom history has cast asContinue Reading
From the sartorial choices to the scenery, the latest superhero reboot drips with alt-rock influences.Continue Reading
U K viewers will get to watch the Ukrainian TV show that helped launch Volodymyr Zelensky’s meteoric rise when it airs on Channel 4 this Sunday. Servant of the People, whose three seasons broke viewing records in Ukraine and won awards around the world between 2015 and 2019, starred ZelenskyContinue Reading
Inevitably, there will be Harry Potters and Hermione Grangers commemorated across the UK– and 100 other countries around the world celebrating all things literature in school. This year sees the 25th anniversary of the fair with book bargains and £1 book tokens being gifted to children to encourage a readingContinue Reading
With Russia accused of war crimes in Ukraine, the streaming platform finds itself increasingly isolated as Western companies abandon the pariah state.Continue Reading
Review at a glance J ust a week ago, an exhibition featuring bomb sites, mass displacement of people and traumatised refugees would have seemed remote from our time. But now, quite a lot of the content and much of the tone of Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-65, theContinue Reading
O n April 20, the great, the good and the simply stratospherically wealthy of the international art world will descend on Venice for the city’s 59th art biennale. Chances are, however, that Pavlo Makov, the artist chosen to represent Ukraine at this year’s event, will not be there. Nobody knowsContinue Reading
Review at a glance A petite blonde woman – lips ringed in postbox red lipstick – stands on a table in front of a rapt crowd, telling a story about an uncle who liked crosswords, who taught her to play football in his yard, who died of an incurable cancer.Continue Reading
T he Peaky Blinders are back – and Steven Knight’s tale of Brummie gangster life in the inter-war period looks set to reach a blood-soaked crescendo in the BBC drama’s sixth series, which marks the final chapter for the disturbingly dysfunctional Shelby family. After season five’s dramatic conclusion, the questionContinue Reading
Review at a glance I t’s hard to think of Avril Lavigne as an elder stateswoman of pop-punk when she looks almost exactly the same on the cover of her seventh album, at 37, as she did on her 20 year-old debut album, Let Go. This time, she sounds theContinue Reading
