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Climax: Cinema Psychotherapy

One way to categorise Gaspar Noé’s 2018 trip-fest Climax is a musical horror, another is psychotherapy, exploring the human condition…

Mar 18, 2019

Climax: Cinema Psychotherapy

Mar 18, 2019

Gareth Roberts

The Square; or, the spectacle of liberalism

The Square has been fairly neatly branded as a surrealist satire on modern art. But it’s much more than that. It takes on art’s audiences…

Mar 9, 2019

The Square; or, the spectacle of liberalism

Mar 9, 2019

Gareth Roberts

Burning; or, forgetting what’s not there

“It’s not about imaging it’s there, it’s about forgetting it’s not there.”

Feb 27, 2019

Burning; or, forgetting what’s not there

Feb 27, 2019

Gareth Roberts

On Chesil Beach (2018); or, why some novels should stay as that

I went to see the recent adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel On Chesil Beach because I thought, ‘Wow, they’re going to adapt that? How will…

Jun 8, 2018

On Chesil Beach (2018); or, why some novels should stay as that

Jun 8, 2018

Gareth Roberts

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino; or, Alex Turner’s intergalactic odyssey

Like many people, a not insignificant part of me wanted the Arctic Monkeys to return to their riff-driven tradition that was once dubbed…

May 21, 2018

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino; or, Alex Turner’s intergalactic odyssey

May 21, 2018

Gareth Roberts

NT Live does not replace live theatre, but it’s still a great thing

When the then artistic director of the National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner, announced the inception of National Theatre Live (NT Live) in…

Apr 23, 2018

NT Live does not replace live theatre, but it’s still a great thing

Apr 23, 2018

Gareth Roberts

Summer and Smoke; or, the disintegration of youth

Rebecca Frecknall’s new production of Summer and Smoke at the Almeida Theatre is a masterful construction in modern direction, and gives a…

Apr 8, 2018

Summer and Smoke; or, the disintegration of youth

Apr 8, 2018

Gareth Roberts

Kumukanda; or, cultural inheritance and belonging

Kumukanda is a collection of poetry by Zambian-born British poet Kayo Chingonyi, giving a personal insight into growing up within a…

Apr 4, 2018

Kumukanda; or, cultural inheritance and belonging

Apr 4, 2018

Gareth Roberts

Annihilation; or, human nature’s self-destruction

Alex Garland’s straight-to-digital sci-fi film Annihilation is far from perfect, but its final half an hour pulls together some intriguing…

Mar 29, 2018

Annihilation; or, human nature’s self-destruction

Mar 29, 2018

Gareth Roberts

You Were Never Really Here; or, what you never really saw

“Taxi Driver for a new century”: the line from The Times review that’s smacked on the UK promotional poster for Lynne Ramsay’s fourth…

Mar 28, 2018

You Were Never Really Here; or, what you never really saw

Mar 28, 2018

Gareth Roberts

Gareth Roberts

Cinema, Arts and Culture. All you need to know is I like nothing more than Henrik Ibsen’s beard-hair combo. Nothing. Not even my family.

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