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New Woman Behind the Camera brings together the whimsical and the confrontational to show how modernism shaped photography

Dismissed as a dime-store Shostakovich, then praised as a major modern composer

Stone Cold was foul-mouthed, sadistic and mean — and people loved him

A lot of Inside is not even attempting to be funny

The much-hyped comeback was a waste of time

Perhaps the real secret to the song’s eternal popularity is that it taps into our modern obsession with feeling good about ourselves

Video killed the video store

Bad politics often make good art. That’s especially true when the art is tasked with making sense of political senselessness

Hawkwind played notes from underground, but they had a global influence

Diversity drama at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association could prove fatal

Everything seemed so dated

Still, I hope he kills it

Castellano and Castaldo descended upon Narrowsburg with a gust of wind, declaring that they would open an acting school, start a film festival and make it ‘the Sundance of the East’

In the Eighties, Japan had prosperity, optimism, loads of bizarre porn and the solace of technological gadgetry

How do you rein in the overactive bits of Manfred Honeck’s imagination without driving him away?

Part of what makes them special is the depth of their catalog

Hats off to the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond. They’ve discovered a new form of racism. Some people say we have enough ethnic division already but in south-west London they’re gagging for more apparently. A new play, Prodigal, examines the prejudice endured by a Ugandan chap whose mother moved to London when he was a

Shouldn’t my tastes have evolved in the past 13 years?

Poor Chet Baker. He really was born to be blue

Ken Burns’s Hemingway is a pleasant surprise

There probably is something here for everyone. But maybe only one thing