Usher ‘My Way The Las Vegas Residency’ Review: Issa Rae, Stokley and More
Usher is just a few weeks away from ending the first leg of My Way – The Vegas Residency, and he’s going out on top. More than 5,000 people came from all over the world […]
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Arctic Monkeys: The Car review – aching songs of soured dreams | Arctic Monkeys
When Arctic Monkeys sprang into the charts 16 years ago, they did so with a hurtling energy and an album name borrowed from Alan Sillitoe’s novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. At the time, the […]
Review: This week’s releases follow people living the dream
A scene from “Minions: The Rise of Gru’ courtesy of Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures This week’s releases include a supervillain’s origin story; an ordinary woman who dares to follow her dream; and a collection […]
Logitech G Cloud Gaming Handheld review: terminally online
Logitech’s G Cloud Gaming Handheld is a heartbreaker. It’s a joy to game on: it’s much more comfortable to use than the Nintendo Switch, and when the conditions are right, it works like a dream. […]
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio review: a dazzling masterpiece on Netflix
This review was published in conjunction with the movie’s premiere at the 2022 BFI London Film Festival. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio will debut on Netflix in December. From the opening frames of Guillermo del Toro’s […]
Beth Orton review – a redefining moment | Beth Orton
It’s extraordinary how unchanged Beth Orton appears, given the skirmishes over her very selfhood she has apparently fought in the six years since her last album. Clad in a mirrored dress and glittery shoes – […]
Nok Cultural Ensemble: Njhyi review – a relentlessly Afrofuturist percussive voyage | Music
You might have encountered Edward Wakili-Hick in various guises over the years. As Eddie Hick, he has been a key figure on London’s jazz scene, drumming with the likes of Nubya Garcia, Gilad Atzmon and […]
‘Last Flight Home’ review: A poignant last act
Is it possible for a documentary to be too intimate, too personal, too painful? Well, by definition, it shouldn’t be. But in the case of writer-director Ondi Timoner’s immersive “Last Flight Home,” which counts down […]
Nvidia RTX 4090 review: a 4K beast
I had to triple-check my benchmarks over and over during this review because I couldn’t quite believe my eyes. The RTX 4090 is a beast of a graphics card that marks a new era for […]
Nvidia RTX 4090 review: a 4K beast
I had to triple-check my benchmarks over and over during this review because I couldn’t quite believe my eyes. The RTX 4090 is a beast of a graphics card that marks a new era for […]
Being Funny in a Foreign Language Album Review: The 1975 Soar
Matty Healy is done with kidding himself. He lets us know from track one of The 1975‘s fifth album Being Funny in a Foreign Language (out Friday, October 14th), titled — wait for it: “The […]
Robbie Williams review – a survivor and national treasure is triumphant | Robbie Williams
By the way Robbie Williams opens his show at London’s O2 Arena, you would think he has something to prove. A national treasure and one of the best-selling artists of all time, Williams has been […]
House of the Dragon episode 8 review: Every wound is festering
A missing eye, a rotten tooth, a razor-thin scar standing out livid against pale skin. So much of “The Lord of the Tides” is structured around the injuries House of the Dragon’s cast have accrued […]
Debussy: Jeux; Dukas: La Péri; Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane, etc review – Hindoyan impresses and charms | Classical music
For his debut disc as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s chief conductor, Domingo Hindoyan has brought together three of the most significant French ballet scores of the first half of the 20th century. Paul Dukas’s La […]
Alabaster dePlume review – a rabble-rousing, spiritual jazz adventure | Jazz
Alabaster dePlume does not know what he is doing. He says as much near the start of his set. “I know I’m supposed to behave like I know what I’m doing,” the saxophonist, singer, performance […]
Adidas Places Kanye Branding Deal Under Review
Photo Credit: Cosmopolitan UK / CC by 3.0 Adidas places Kanye’s branding deal ‘under review’ amid controversy. Adidas has placed its partnership with rapper and designer Kanye West under review after working with him on […]
Lamb of God’s Omens Calls Out Present Perils: Review
Lamb of God have been … well, Lamb of God for decades now. Their aggression, their lyricism, the harmony of their riffs — it’s all part of their signature sauce, in a sense. While their […]
Sarathy Korwar: Kalak review – deep, dark drumbeats create a mesmerising story | Music
Sarathy Korwar has a light touch behind the drum kit. Since debuting with 2016’s Day to Day, where he mixed the folk music of the Siddi community from rural Gujarat with west African rhythms and […]
‘Fire Country’ on CBS review: A soap opera with pyrotechnics
“Fire Country,” which premieres Friday on CBS, is a soap opera with pyrotechnics, set among firefighters in a fictional Northern California hamlet where trees outnumber people — for now. With the state predicted to face […]
Rings of Power episode 7 review: The cost of doing good in Middle-earth
With each new episode, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has put more and more emphasis on the morally ambiguous choices our heroes are forced to make. Episode 6, “Udûn,” presented the […]