The Last of Us | Episode 5 review: Endure and Survive
Episode 5 of The Last of Us sees Joel and Ellie fight humans and infected alike, including our first Bloater.Â
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This Is Why review | Pop-punk Paramore evolve from their emo years
★★★☆☆
After nearly six years, pop-punk darlings Paramore return with brand new, highly anticipated album This Is Why.Â
Blue Jean review | Impressive, but flawed debut
★★★☆☆
In Blue Jean, Georgia Oakley’s impressive, but flawed debut, a PE teacher faces a personal crisis in Thatcher’s Britain.
Your Place or Mine review | Kutcher and Witherspoon can't connect in split screen bore
★★☆☆☆ Your Place or Mine is a straight-to-Netflix romantic comedy that reunites two likeable performers, Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon. I’m playing fast and loose with the word ‘reunite’ here because Kutcher and Witherspoon aren’t in the same room together for most of the movie.
Women Talking review | A moving ode to solidarity between women
★★★★☆
In Sarah Polley’s gentle Women Talking, a group of Mennonite women debate whether they should leave their colony after a series of brutal attacks against them.Â
This Stupid World review | Yo La Tengo carve their own brand of optimism amid despair
★★★★☆
After 16 albums and nearly 40 years as indie rock’s depressive cult heroes, you may think Yo La Tengo would be running out of things to say and ways to surprise. But on their 17th LP This Stupid World – their first of wholly original material since 2018’s There’s a Riot Going On – there’s a living urgency in the trio’s meditative assortment of reflective odes to time and past and all that holds.
The Lehman Trilogy review | an undeniably intimate epic
Charting the rise and fall of America's fourth largest investment bank, Sam Mendes' Tony Award-winning epic, The Lehman Trilogy, returns to the Gillian Lynne Theatre following its acclaimed Broadway run.
Truth Decay review | Screaming self-pity from You Me At Six
★★☆☆☆
The truth hurts. This much is true. And whilst You Me At Six attempt a return to their authentic selves on their eighth studio album, Truth Decay often wallows a bit too much in self-pity, with its more impressive melodic aspects too far and few between.
Pollen review | 'Tennis will soundtrack your next party'
★★★☆☆
Tennis's new album is the ideal soundtrack to a 'cool, artsy, backroom party' taking a break from Father John Misty. Read our Pollen review.
Raven review | Kelela revels in both the dancefloor and the afterglow
★★★★☆
After a hefty six-year hiatus, Kelela is finally back on the scene with her second studio album RAVEN. The singer re-emerges to add to the sanctified canon of her previous discography, all the way from her mixtape Cut 4 Me, released a decade ago, to her 2017 debut album Take Me Apart, with a scattering of features on tracks from the likes of Solange and Gorillaz along the way.
Magic Mike’s Last Dance review | Stripper franchise has run out of magic
★★☆☆☆ Steven Soderbergh and Channing Tatum return to conclude the stripper saga in Magic Mike’s Last Dance. Read our review.Â
Mogwai at The Garage review | Intimate and inspiring splendour from post-rock’s greats
★★★★★
Merely nine months after headlining Alexandra Palace to 10,000 people, Mogwai have returned to the capital for an intimate extravaganza of 600 attendees. However, the shrunken surroundings only add to the triumph and impact of their unexpectedly successful songs.
