2/5 stars
A German stand-up comedian? Surely not. Well actually, there is such a thing, and his name is Henning Wehn.
We should all have learnt by now that the Germans have a sense of humour, …

5/5 stars
Imagine a duckling and a kitten sitting in a cloud of candy floss while watching the opening scenes of Up and you’ll have a rough idea of the aww-inducing sweetness of Isy Suttie’s latest …

3/5 stars
“What was Delete the Banjax like?”
“A mess.”
“Basically 45 minutes of them dicking around and about five minutes of actual sketches that went wrong halfway through.”
There’s a certain beauty in shambolic comedy. Any performer worth …

3/5 stars
I want to like Irish supergroup Dead Cat Bounce. They’re comedy. They’re rock. Short of handing out free food, they’re everything I want in a live performance. But something doesn’t click and I can’t …

5/5 stars
There are a lot of clever little touches to the The Train Job that lift the ordinary sketch format to something quite special. One of which, as we file into the room, is a …

Layered in contrasts and steeped in romance, Days of Heaven (1978) is one of Terrence Mallick’s most stylistic films. It carries all his trademarks: shot almost entirely outdoors, heavily narrated and celebratory of nature, it …

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This is not, I have to confess, the kind of place I usually find myself in. As far as I can tell, Tower Bridge is where people who don’t really know London go for a …

It’s about time that North London had some place to compete with the South’s swanky Wandsworth and Brixton branches of the Grand Union. And considering the posh pub’s twelfth addition to the family is smack …

The relationship between art and money is a tricky one at the best of times. Artists, we’re told, are supposed to dwell high up in draughty garrets, wear moth-bitten smocks and shuffle about in a …

The usual formula for restaurant reviews these days is predictably tripartite: 1, the critic bangs on about his girlfriend/gout/celebrity pals for as many words as the subs allow. 2, the critic mentions the food. 3, …

The ‘West’ has been fascinated with an area of the world they call ‘The Orient’ for… pretty much ever. One of the most distinctive styles of dress is that of the Orient with …

A 3D dance documentary? For real. The art world has gone nuts for Pina Bausch for decades. Two years after her death, the possibility of learning more about this phenomenal choreographer has dance lovers, cinephiles …

Nestled in the quaint quarters of Chancery Lane sits Baranis, a chic new bar offering a cocktail-infused taste of Provence. With the promise of free food and quality booze, I’ve roped a friend along for …