Hiro Murai drops the spy tropes for this millennial drama

Director Hiro Murai talks with actors Donald Glover and Maya Erskine and a woman with her back to the camera.

“Do you want to kiss me? Not as dogs this time, just actually…” That’s Maya Erskine as Jane, who’s ready to renege on the “no romance” agreement made earlier with her faux-husband, John (Donald Glover), […]

Olivia Dean: Messy review – hackneyed British soul tropes do singer a disservice | Music

Olivia Dean: Messy album art

At first, Brit school alumna Olivia Dean’s debut album Messy feels worryingly like another addition to the catalogue marked “stage school to neo-soul crooner”. There are horns, shuffling 60s rhythms and artificial vinyl crackling, just […]