Saturday, 10 November 2018

Creating still life – art in process

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I live in a very small flat – with one Other Half and three cats – and this really is the main space that I have in which to create art. I...
Friday, 9 November 2018

Anyone dissing The Grinch can do one

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Apparently, Rolling Stone doesn’t rate Illumination’s new animation of The Grinch . Wow. The Grinch isn’t rock ’n’ roll enough for Rolling...
Friday, 26 October 2018

A rhapsody about the ultimate queen

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Queen were a revolutionary band. This is not really a matter for dispute. And if you don’t believe it, I suggest you listen to A Night at...
Sunday, 21 October 2018

A very, very, very dark – but funny – matter

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Copenhagen, the 19th century: Danish celebrity author Hans Christian Anderson is regaling an audience with his latest fairy tale, The Lit...
Wednesday, 17 October 2018

A label-defying film that offers up abundant treats

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If films deserved plaudits for defying labelling, then Bad Times at the El Royale , would be winning them by the bucketload. But as if to i...
Sunday, 7 October 2018

Ravens to rave about

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It was early 2016, on a chilly Saturday morning, that I set off for the Tower of London, with the explicit aim of being one of the first ...
Friday, 5 October 2018

Venomously underwhelming, but just perhaps ...?

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Marvel Studies can do little wrong these days, but while they make it look easy to produce big, brash and fun films, Venom is a reminder...