MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds Rosamund Pike’s punchy and tragic portrayal of a multi-tasking mother and high court judge
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FIONA O CONNOR recommends an unflinching depiction of child sexual abuse and its aftershocks, set in a working-class Liverpool family
New releases from Paul Weller, Wet Leg, and Dino Saluzzi
PAUL DONOVAN relishes the spectacle of a 1950s detective in pursuit of a 500-year-old murder mystery
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
WITH no live music and specialist record shops closed, 2020 looked like it was going to be a wipe-out.
So who would have thought that so many excellent releases and reissues would have found their way into the hands of music fans, with 2020 the year that veterans released some great new albums.
They included soul artists such as Don Bryant with Your Love Is To Blame (Fat Possum), Jerry “Swamp Dogg” William’s country-soul set Sorry You Couldn’t Make It (Joyful Noise) and Dan Penn’s Living On Mercy (Last Music Company).
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