The National Theatre has revealed a stunning line-up of productions for its 2025 season, featuring a mix of revitalized classics, ground-breaking musicals, and celebrated new works. From poignant ...

The 20 th century was a time of rampant political change and unrestrained tyranny. One needs only to mention the word ‘fascism’ for such disturbing images to appear before our eyes: Hitler’s Nazi ...

The opening of Breakfast at Tiffany’s is iconic, like a cinematic Bible scene in the Church of Hollywood. All the sacrosanct signifiers of the film are captured in those first minutes; the emergence ...

Sam Fender’s People Watching is a blockbuster. The North Shields-born singer-songwriter announced his third studio album last November, igniting excitement among his ever-growing, devoted fanbase.

At one point in Andrew O’Hagan’s state-of-the-nation novel, Caledonian Road, one character tells another: “A real writer doesn’t reveal the truth. He hides it beautifully.” And that statement could ...

Brilliant lead performances, witty set pieces, and cleverly constructed plot twists ensure BBC One’s new puzzle-themed cosy crime series barely puts a foot wrong. It may seem counterintuitive to begin ...

Andrea Arnold’s latest, Bird, is an alluring and complicated love letter to North Kent and the process of finding a place there. Having grown up twenty minutes from where these characters live, Arnold ...

Spector‘s latest album, Here Come The Early Nights, set for release on Friday 24th November is a mature and introspective meditation on aging and legacy. Addressing the search for purpose and identity ...

In 1992, Blur hit a snag in their career trajectory. Although their debut album Leisure (1991) garnered them substantial recognition (the LP reached number seven in the charts), the project was met ...

M. Night Shyamalan has always had an eccentric aspect to his work, usually in the mode of the supernatural and occult. However, what was once a defining flair to his films seems to have become their ...

Sometimes the most difficult thing about writing is getting started. A writer may have an idea about how they want their story to end but they may not know where, or even how to begin. There is no ...

The year 2024 seems to have been the resurrection of dance, hyperpop and indie sleaze. All of this having been captained by the one and only Charli xcx who, with her neon green album Brat, has ...