The opening images of Tornado are striking. A wild-haired young woman in Japanese peasant garb runs for her life through a ...

On leaving prison, Lollipop’s thirtyish single mum Molly discovers that reclaiming her kids from social care is akin to doing ...

It’s been a long time since an exhibition made me feel physically sick. The Hayward Gallery is currently hosting a ...

The safe transfer of power in post-war Western democracies was once a given. The homely Pickfords Removals van outside Number ...

I first came across Rachel Jones in 2021 at the Hayward Gallery’s painting show Mixing it Up: Painting Today. I was blown ...

The safe transfer of power in post-war Western democracies was once a given. The homely Pickfords Removals van outside Number ...

Swiss electro-rockers, Young Gods have been around for 40 years, but this in no way should suggest that they’ve gone soft in ...

There’s an old theatre joke. “The electric chair is too good for a monster like that. They should send him out of town with a ...

For the first encore of the evening, it was not just the audience but the whole ensemble of Hespèrion XXI that was mesmerised ...

In recent years, having returned to the three masterpieces – in their totality probably Puccini’s supreme offering – in Zoom classes, I’ve found more subtle connections with Dante as a source of ...

Do the French do irony? Well, was Astérix a Gaul? Obviously they do, and do it pretty well to judge by many of their movies down the decades.

When Neil Young releases a new album, you can be reasonably sure that you’ll get either a disc of melancholy ...