Test Dept are pioneers of hardcore, ear-battering industrial music who first got together in the early 1980s. They may have ...

The title is a portmanteau word, one that hardly stretches one’s sleuthing capacity to decipher, which proves, unlike much else in a very curious two hours, to be well-chosen for what morphs into a ...

Their task isn’t made easier by the fact that the truck is being monitored by a drone overhead, but Lana cooks up an ingenious ruse to stop the vehicle inside a tunnel and replace the driver with one ...

Most of the Brit gangster movies released around the turn of the Millennium were pretty dire. Often influenced by Quentin ...

The first thing I saw on entering just about my favourite theatre was a mic on the end of a lead, centre stage. I’d come a ...

Jens Harzer, in Berliner Ensemble Artistic Director Oliver Reese's staging of an exceptional German translation by Mirko Bonné (English subtitles either side of the Coronet stage), not only takes us ...

Barkouf, the operetta that Offenbach wrote in 1860 immediately after Orpheus in the Underworld, was, you might say, dogged by ...

Rachmaninov's biggest, most demanding concerto began with Vondráček playing on the cusp of audibility, then speeding through elaboration of the mostly stepwise theme - derived, like so much in ...

The question of how deep these performances went, though, is probably subjective. I missed something, but nothing tangible, so let's praise the insights instead. Elgar had the ideal flexibility writ ...

Don't be fooled by New Ross. This quiet Irish country town on the tidal River Barrow with narrow medieval streets, hilly ...

The knife in the eye is the cruellest blow,” Salman Rushdie considers, in this film of his book reckoning with the assault ...

If your parents were crazy enough to call you Esmerelda – a name they gleaned from a crossword puzzle – you’d most likely ...