What a delightful show this is: a big hit at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe and now enjoying an extended run at Soho Theatre, ...

Every day, on the first day of the seventh lunar month, the Gates of Hell open and ghosts are allowed to return to our world.

Music can be a life-healing catalyst, the untrammelled essence of heart and mind conveyed human and raw from the soul. There’s magic in that. Alternately, there’s singing, “Lost in the valley of the ...

There are warnings on every screening-room door at the LFF; Rafael Manuel’s award-winning Filipiñana carries an unnecessary one about sexist language and attitudes. This beautifully shot but mannered ...

The scenario Pickett has devised shouldn’t work; in fact, it raises one too many questions to be wholly successful, notably: who has been fighting this civil war? On one side is tattooed, bearded, ...

You can see why: the three semi-autobiographical novels – The Midnight Bell (1929), The Siege of Pleasure (1932) and The Plains of Cement (1934) – are a challenge to adapt. They have a panoramic ...

Pastor Manders (Oliver Alvin-Wilson), whom Helene loved and for whom she would have abandoned the respectability of marriage, is on hand to open the new home. During the course of a single day, these ...

How much further Ibragimova and a slightly different team - all women now - have taken that G minor Quartet than on their already superb BIS recording. Haydn wasn't exactly young when he made this ...

A tray of water, a metallic plate piled with salt, a bubble-producing plastic stick. The kind of tat that looks so cheap you ...

If you haven't read A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson, who collaborated on the film, you'll want to after this. Were the story of how how De Gaulle and his ...

Disc number four, however, marks a sharp stylistic left turn for the Aussie mavericks. In fact, No Bad Memories sounds most of all like it could easily have come from a frenzied collaboration between ...