Sunday, 2 June 2024

Supernova – an incredibly beautiful and sensitive film about dementia

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Tusker and Sam have been a couple for years and are taking a campervan trip to the Lake District to revisit some of their favourite places a...
Thursday, 30 May 2024

Evenings and Weekends: A brilliant debut novel about queer life from Oisín McKenna

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London; 2019. As a beached whale lies beside the Thames, a sweltering summer is leaving the city’s residents with a sense that something – w...
Saturday, 25 May 2024

Beryl Cook/Tom of Finland: a stimulating exhibition

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It might seem a strange idea to stage an exhibition of works by both Beryl Cook (1926-2008) and Touko Laaksonen, who was better known as Tom...
Saturday, 18 May 2024

Love Lies Bleeding: A taut, sexy thriller

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It’s 1989 in a small town in America: Louise ‘Lou’ Langston is the manager of a gym, where she spends an inordinate amount of time unblockin...
Saturday, 27 April 2024

Brilliant: Salman Rushdie on The Wizard of Oz

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“There’s no place home; there’s no place like home.” It’s an iconic line – and sentiment – from  The Wizard of Oz , and certainly from the c...
Sunday, 14 April 2024

Evil Does Not Exist – or perhaps it does, in Hamaguchi's enigmatic eco-parable

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Single father   Takumi – we’re led to believe he’s a widower – lives with his eight-year-old daughter Hana in the peaceful village of Mizubi...
Saturday, 6 April 2024

Just who is the Monster?

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Saori Mugino is a widow, raising her young son Minato and working in a laundry in a small city in the Nagarno region of contemporary Japan. ...