A gem for me this year has been the collaborative project between the veteran minimalist composer Chihei Hatakeyama and jazz ...

There’s nothing like an anodyne new(ish) work to give a masterpiece an even higher profile. Rachel Portman‘s Tipping Points, promising to address climate change issues, was so bland and featureless it ...

The descending refrain opening the song isn’t unusual but attention is instantly attracted as it’s played on a harpsichord.

Where Sara Martins was a long-standing regular as DS Camille Bordey, and other French actors have rotated through the cast, the only glimmer of Gallicness remaining in this seasonal special was the ...

RaMell Ross’s feature debut follows his poetic documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018) in again observing ...

The destruction of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988 was one of the ghastliest events in what would become ...

Does absolutely everything have to get more difficult with each passing year? Apparently so. The amount of time I’ve spent ...

Having carved a swathe of terror and destruction through the Axis forces in North Africa, the SAS return for a second series ...

Maybe it was the timing, even though most of the action takes place in bright sunlight, that made The Split’s two-parter ...

Looking back over the past 12 months, it struck me how it has been the shows fashioned from personal stories that have stayed ...

In an ideal world an end-of-year roundup would applaud only new ventures – fresh productions that you may curse for having ...

In one sense it was a New Year’s Day “nearly”, just stopping short of giving us the already great Irish lyric-dramatic ...