MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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Film Round-up: April 28 2023
MARIA DUARTE reviews Little Richard, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rodeo and Polite Society
Priya Kansara and Nimra Bucha in Polite Society (2023)
New releases from Mountain, Soul Asylum and Michael McDermott
ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
Little Richard: I Am Everything (15)
Directed by Lisa Cortes
★★★★
HAILED as the “architect of rock ‘n’ roll” and in Little Richard’s own words “the originator and the emancipator,” this entertaining yet surprisingly moving account of his life and career also explores his legacy and the black queer origins of pop music.
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