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    • Monday, 5 September, 2022
      Life of a Song
      Russians — Sting’s 1985 hit is a reminder of more hopeful times

      The track was released in the Gorbachev-Reagan era that eventually led to the end of the cold war

    • Thursday, 10 September, 2020
      ReviewTelevision
      Moscow Noir and The Sect — two forays into Russia on Walter Presents

      All4’s overseas drama strand ventures into new territory with these series

    • Wednesday, 2 September, 2020
      ReviewAudio books
      EM Forster’s ‘Maurice’ given fresh voice by Ben Whishaw

      Nearly 50 years after its posthumous publication, the seminal same-sex love story is still resonant in a new audiobook

    • Tuesday, 4 August, 2020
      ReviewFiction
      Real Life — racism under the microscope

      Booker-longlisted Brandon Taylor dissects the pain that white privilege can inflict

    • Friday, 19 June, 2020
      ReviewFilm
      On digital: Queen & Slim / Greed

      A road movie haunted by Black Lives Matter anguish; Steve Coogan revels in a satire of excess

    • Thursday, 21 November, 2019
      Film
      Shades of Chekhov and Pullman at London’s Russian Film Week

      From the culturally elevated to the overtly commercial, the event promises a varied view of the nation’s contemporary cinema

    • Monday, 30 September, 2019
      Life of a Song
      Smalltown Boy — Bronski Beat’s 1984 hit was a heartfelt cry for liberation

      Jimmy Somerville’s soaring voice told a tale of homophobia and alienation

    • Wednesday, 28 November, 2018
      Film
      Star wars and soccer brawls: Russian Film Week comes to the UK

      The festival shines a light on how the nation sees itself and its recent history

    • Friday, 31 August, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      On digital: Custody — don’t expect Kramer vs Kramer

      Xavier Legrand gets the legal tug of war out of the way in short order and turns to the film’s true subject: domestic violence

    • Friday, 10 August, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      On digital: Love, Simon — safe and accessible

      This high school drama from a major Hollywood studio is a groundbreaking entry in the gay canon

    • Friday, 3 August, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      On digital: Bagdad Café — quirky indie gem is a delight

      Reissued after 30 years, this fable of race and culture clash is as relevant as ever

    • Friday, 8 June, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      On digital: 120 BPM — ‘fly-on-the-wall realism’

      Aids activists take on Big Pharma in a drama based on the activities of the Act Up pressure group in 1990s Paris

    • Friday, 1 June, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      On digital: Loveless — ‘haunting cinematography’

      In his latest masterpiece, Andrei Zvyagintsev aims for the heart, pitching us into the emotional snake-pit of a toxic marriage

    • Thursday, 10 May, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Life and Fate, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London — epic yet intimate

      Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg’s adaptation of Vasily Grossman’s sprawling novel is a remarkable achievement

    • Friday, 17 November, 2017
      Life & Arts
      How Russia’s film-makers are playing Hollywood at its own game

      Alien invaders and home-grown superheroes challenge the country’s reputation for art-house high-mindedness

    • Friday, 2 June, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      DVD: Fences — ‘very talky’

      Denzel Washington plays a former Negro league baseball player in drama thick with Miller-esque themes

    • Tuesday, 16 May, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Three Sisters, Piccadilly Theatre, London — authentic

      A rare chance for Londoners to hear Chekhov as experienced by a native audience

    • Friday, 9 December, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Almost Holy — DVD review

      Documentary follows a Ukrainian pastor dispensing tough love on drug addicts at his rehab centre

    • Tuesday, 29 November, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Russian Film Week: glimpses of another Russia

      The London season of films offers a varied picture of a little-understood country

    • Friday, 28 October, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Hector — DVD review

      A homeless man leaves a small Scottish town for his annual trip down to London to spend Yuletide in a shelter

    • Friday, 8 July, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      House of Cards, Season 4 — DVD review

      How can the Netflix series sustain the intrigue that makes it the stuff of binge-viewing?

    • Friday, 13 May, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      The Fear — DVD review

      Damien Odoul’s first world war film deserves credit for its unflinching vision of the senseless carnage in the trenches

    • Friday, 6 May, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      A War — DVD review

      Questions of right and wrong fly as thick and fast as the bullets fired in this riveting drama

    • Friday, 29 April, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      London Spy (season 1) — DVD review

      Writer Tom Rob Smith posits a tender, mismatched gay relationship in a plot of frustrating murkiness

    • Friday, 29 January, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Irrational Man — DVD review

      A student becomes embroiled in her philosophy lecturer’s existential dilemma in Woody Allen’s latest

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