A few years ago, the director Stewart Laing invented a character called Paul Bright. He was a Glasgow performance artist who had staged an epic adaptation of Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg […]
She-Hulk herself isn’t a telepath, but Disney Plus’ She-Hulk: Attorney at Law knows exactly what you were thinking when you first saw its statuesque heroine in all her uncanny VFX glory, and it appreciates all […]
From Lizzo to Beyoncé, it’s been another hot girl summer in pop. Now Megan Thee Stallion joins the twerktastic party with “Traumazine,” her surprise second album that she announced last Thursday, just hours before dropping […]
“You’re never quite sure when you go home how people are going to receive you,” says Chris Martin from Wembley’s stage. It’s the kind of thing that hugely successful rock stars say to get a […]
I hold such affection for Penny Marshall’s widely loved 1992 baseball film A League of Their Own that, for years, I felt an irrationally strong flash of disappointment whenever its name appeared in the TV […]
Four friends on the brink of middle school discover a dead body in the coming-of-age film ‘Summering,’ directed by James Ponsoldt. Share This Article
Benin’s Star Feminine Band have had a remarkable journey to releasing their music. The seven-piece all-female group, aged between 12 and 19, only began learning their instruments in 2016, after participating in a free music […]
Movies like Spy Kids and Catch That Kid, which put kids at the center of big blockbuster-esque plots, have a difficult task. It’s hard for a movie to simultaneously appeal to kids and to an […]
Though these days we generally hear the Brahms symphonies performed by a full-sized symphony orchestra of 70 or 80 players, the composer himself is said to have preferred smaller forces. The orchestra in Karlsruhe, which […]
In retrospect, no matter how long and arduous it seemed at the time, high school actually went by in the blink of an eye. And for better or worse, the new season of Never Have […]
What’s good and what’s not on Disney+, Hulu, Apple TV+, Peacock, VOD and more. Share This Article
Travis Scott is known for his boundless energy in live performances, and the pure chaos he invokes in his crowds – there’s a reason his fans are known as the “ragers”. This is the Houston […]
Heartbreak and farce collide in Glyndebourne’s final production of the season, a double bill of Poulenc’s two one-acters – La Voix Humaine and Les Mamelles de Tirésias – directed by Laurent Pelly and conducted by […]
ABBA Voyage, the digital avatars playing in London. Image by Tim Sandle. ABBA are back, at least virtually. Playing in London is the show ABBA Voyage, using digitally recorded avatars of the four band members, […]
The curious case of Brandon Lee, an enigmatic 16-year-old who in 1993 arrived at Bearsden Academy near Glasgow, is told twice in the generally amusing, if perhaps too insensitively lighthearted, Scottish documentary “My Old School.” […]
For nearly all of “A Love Song’s” 81 minutes, we are in the presence of Faye, a 60-something widow camping in the mountains of southwestern Colorado. She’s good company, even when not much seems to […]
An extraordinary story of nerve-wracking heroism gets an appealingly straightforward, propulsive retelling in Ron Howard’s “Thirteen Lives,” which dutifully dramatizes the risky 2018 operation that saved a dozen boys and their soccer coach from the […]
The saxophonist, flautist and early global-music pioneer Charles Lloyd has been entrancing audiences worldwide for more than 60 years, as well as travelling widely in his own fertile imagination to cultures way outside his jazz […]
‘It’s a love letter to the LGBTQ+ community’ I think this is my favourite Beyoncé album. It’s a love letter to the LGBTQ+ community, dancefloors and ballroom, and it has surprised me in the best […]
In “Ali & Ava,” a lovely surprise from English filmmaker Clio Barnard, music is more than just a soundtrack; it’s the characters’ very lifeblood. When we first meet Ali (Adeel Akhtar), a part-time DJ in […]