MIK SABIERS savours the first headline solo show of the stalwart of Brighton’s indie-punk outfit Blood Red Shoes
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There's a much more fascinating and complex film hidden away in a romantic melodrama set in post-war Germany, says MARIA DUARTE
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STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
CAILEAN MCBRIDE welcomes a refreshing and timely study of the way officialdom creates structures that exclude LGBT+ rights and humanity
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
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a star-studded adaptation of Ibsen’s play that is devoid of believable humanity
The Aftermath (15)
Directed by James Kent
THIS Mills and Boon-style weepie opens in 1945, five months after the allied victory, with Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) heading to Hamburg to join her husband Lewis (Jason Clark), a British colonel charged with rebuilding the bombed out city.
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