The bard mourns the loss of comrades and troubadours, and looks for consolation with Black Country Jess

CHRIS MOSS relishes the painting and the life story of a self-taught working-class artist from Warrington

CAILEAN MCBRIDE welcomes a refreshing and timely study of the way officialdom creates structures that exclude LGBT+ rights and humanity

GEORGE FOGARTY is stunned by the epic and life-affirming sound of an outstanding Palestinian musical collective

GORDON PARSONS meditates on the appetite of contemporary audiences for the obscene cruelty of Shakespeare’s Roman nightmare

MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a star-studded adaptation of Ibsen’s play that is devoid of believable humanity

Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade, Parthenope, Where Dragons Live and Thunderbolts* reviewed by MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE

JOHN GREEN recommends a German comedy that celebrates the old GDR values of solidarity, community and a society not dominated by consumerism

CHRIS SEARLE wallows in an evening of high class improvised jazz, and recommends upcoming highlights in May

by Abeer Ameer

MARY CONWAY applauds the revival of a tense, and extremely funny, study of men, money and playing cards

MEHDI ACHOUCHE explores the constant fascination of cinema with Marxist alienation from Fritz Lang and Chaplin to Bong Joon Ho