Poetry review – IMPORTENTS: Rennie Halstead feels the force of Naomi Foyle’s response to the ills of contemporary society
The Parallax View (Pakula) 1974 Imprint Blu Ray. Review by Alan Price. The Parallax View contains a celebrated film within a film.
Poetry review – SANDSNARL: Alex Josephy reviews Jon Stone’s collection of poetic games in the sand
Poetry review – GO PLAY OUTSIDE: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a basketball-themed collection from Robert Cooperman
An Earl’s Court Miscellany. FinboroughFrontier online content. Review by Barbara Lewis. The ever-inventive Finborough Theatre has combined its return to real-life drama with an enlightened decision to carry on delivering original online work for free that surely can only enhance one of the strongest off-West End brands.
Poetry review – A470: Pat Edwards reviews an anthology inspired by the road that runs the whole length of Wales
Poetry review – LAVENDER FIRE, LAVENDER ROSE : Charles Rammelkamp reviews a prizewinning collection by Kenneth Pobo
Licorice Pizza (2021). Review by Alan Price. The title Licorice Pizza comes from a long gone record store that director Paul Thomas Anderson knew when he was growing up in Southern California. It featured a female cook holding up her freshly baked ‘licorice pizza’ – a yummy black vinyl record!
Francis Bacon: Man and Beast. Review by Graham Buchan. “Life is suffering”. If you need visual confirmation of that, look no further than this great exhibition of Francis Bacon’s work.
Mike Leigh’s Naked (1993). Review by Alan Price. In 1993 Naked was an abrupt shift from Leigh’s domestic comedy dramas. This raw and provocative film, full of black humour, about the underbelly of London cutting into a morally confused lower-middle class, both excited and dismayed people.
The Roman School of Painting at Villa Torlonia. Review by Carla Scarano. The impressive compound of Villa Torlonia, which is in via Nomentana in Rome, is the result of the development of various buildings in the natural environment of the park.
Poetry review – THE NAMING: Mat Riches admires the originality and power in Jeremy Page’s poems of memory
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