Glistening blazing dust, rocks on rocks, yellow golden skies of sand paved down the way. Layers of red, indigo, light pinks and burgundy shaded beds of stones stood up in rays, Petra’s columns, sculpt…
2019 Film and TV Preview
The silver screen ‘The world has enough superheroes’ claimed last year’s Venom, but clearly no one listened. Prepare for the deluge of super-content. Shazam hopes to follow Aquaman in breathing more l…
2018 in Film: What You Missed and What Is Yet To Come
Whilst you were splashing your student loans on Avengers: Infinity War and Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom, some good cinema went under your radar. Here are a few picks of what you might have missed and…
Entracte
I put the mask back on Perform but there’s no sun The words are out but without meaning A pantomime, back into hiding. I was out in the cold open Now it’s back to lies back to men I glimpsed th…
Finding EDEN
For someone who doesn’t walk to Tesco alone, I found myself in a rather interesting fix when I realised I would be going to a concert – alone. The tickets had been booked before I even got my un…
2018’s Top Ten Films
The Review staff writers came together to decide this year’s top ten films and to highlight some of 2018’s biggest disappointments. 10) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (wr…
Goodbyes
And a thousand different skies merge to one within my eyes: people, places, memories, thoughts; all is here and all is lost. Suns that rose now sun that sets: pink, blue, green; rewind, reset. …
Order and Chaos
Farewell sailor, from the realm of reason we now depart! Rhyme not as leisure but real art will guide our ship into the dark. Recall blue skies and sun in your eyes, when you could tell truth from the…
Odell’s Ode to London
Fans lined up by the dozens in the cold outside London’s iconic concert room Hammersmith Apollo, full of impatience and excitement.Their expectations were met, if not exceeded, by Tom Odell’s excepti…
Crudo: Weddings, Wars, and the World’s End
Author: Olivia Laing Kathy is getting married in the summer of 2017, right in the midst of the Trump presidency, Brexit, and fascist uprisings. On holiday with her husband-to-be in Tuscany, she discov…