Willie Nelson –‘The Willie Nelson Family’ review: a tender passing of the torch
Those plaits just won’t quit. At a jaunty 88 years old, the irrepressible country music king that is Willie Nelson is back at it. His latest release is a family affair, bringing to the party his sons...
View Article‘King Richard’ review: tennis biopic isn’t quite a championship-winning smash
If telling the story of two of the most talented, successful athletes to ever exist by focusing on their dad seems like an odd way to go about celebrating female talent, well, it is and it isn’t. Will...
View Article‘Licorice Pizza’ review: a sunny slice of California life topped with Alana Haim
Casting two people who’ve never been in a movie before – let alone ever acted professionally – as your leads is a pretty spicy move, but Paul Thomas Anderson has been making spicy moves for decades...
View Article‘Pirates’ review: banging tunes and DJ sets in the UK’s garage heyday
Equal parts late 1990s nostalgia trip and exquisitely-soundtracked charm offensive, Reggie Yates’ big-hearted big screen directorial debut is a giddy love letter to the UK garage scene that raised him....
View ArticleKanye West and Drake live in Los Angeles: titans unite for a near-religious...
When it comes to putting an epic beef to bed, you can’t say fairer than doing the deed at a super-over-subscribed stadium show that’s also been billed as one of the pandemic era’s biggest and flashiest...
View ArticleAlana Haim on ‘Licorice Pizza’: “Working with Tom Waits was like being in the...
From rock star to film star in one killer move, Alana Haim’s dazzling turn in Licorice Pizza has already scored her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. Not bad going for a movie debut. We had a...
View ArticlePeter Sarsgaard: “Leonard Cohen got away with being a playboy”
“I once saw an actor kiss my wife in a movie and it drove me crazy, because he had his hand in his pocket,” explains a disbelieving and elegantly bearded Peter Sarsgaard. We are, of course, talking...
View ArticleCat Power – ‘Covers’ review: soul-nourishing interpretations with a uniquely...
There’s nothing in the world like a Cat Power cover version. The artist also known as Chan Marshall made herself known as one of the 21st century’s finest interpreters of other artists’ material – her...
View Article‘Pam & Tommy’ review: sex tape scandal takes aim at ’90s sleaze
As much a musing on the swift and seismic rise of tech as it is on the cult of celebrity, Pam & Tommy digs deep-ish into one of the 1990s’ definitive pop cultural moments – Baywatch star Pamela...
View ArticleSoundtrack Of My Life: Ronnie O’Sullivan
This interview first appeared in a February 2017 issue of NME magazine The first song I can remember hearing Michael Jackson – ‘Billie Jean’ “I must have been five or six years old. I became a huge...
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