The Voluptuous Manifesto
All work and no play makes Jill a very dull girl
Saturday, 20 April 2019
Subversive Faustian stuff
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It’s four and a half years since The Other Half and I started going to the Royal Opera House fairly regularly. We’d been to the English N...
Wednesday, 17 April 2019
Us is a creepfest to exercise the mind
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There are movies you see that you can assess quickly and easily: a dose of pure entertainment – great, good, bad or indifferent, but pres...
Friday, 12 April 2019
A hell of a superhero romp
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Boy, oh boy – the new Hellboy film has taken a critical panning. Before even reaching its first weekend, review aggregator Rotten Tomato...
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...
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