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Former features editor of Melody Maker, Adam has written on rock, classical music and television for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, Uncut, Classic FM and Gramophone, and on motor-racing for Motorsport. He co-founded The Virtual Television Company, which made Mr Rock'n'Roll (Channel 4), Pavarotti: The Last Tenor (BBC2 Arena) and Imagine - Nigel Kennedy (BBC One)

Articles By Adam Sweeting

Senna, Netflix review - the life and legend of Brazil's greatest driver

Friday, 29 November 2024 Read more...

Landman, Paramount+ review - once upon a time in the West

Thursday, 28 November 2024 Read more...

Gladiator II review - can lightning strike twice?

Sunday, 17 November 2024 Read more...

Paris Has Fallen, Prime Video review - Afghan war veteran wreaks a terrible vengeance

Thursday, 14 November 2024 Read more...

The Day of the Jackal, Sky Atlantic review - Frederick Forsyth's assassin gets a modern-day makeover

Friday, 08 November 2024 Read more...

Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Disney+ review - the Boss grows older defiantly

Friday, 01 November 2024 Read more...

London Film Festival 2024 - Angelina Jolie does Maria Callas

Thursday, 24 October 2024 Read more...

Rivals, Disney+ review - adultery, skulduggery and political incorrectness

Monday, 21 October 2024 Read more...

London Film Festival 2024 - Daniel Craig, Amy Adams, Twiggy, Christopher Reeve and some snails

Friday, 18 October 2024 Read more...

London Film Festival 2024 - the Vatican, the Blitz, a trip to Poland and a surfin' nightmare

Saturday, 12 October 2024 Read more...

The Hardacres, Channel 5 review - a fishy tale of upward mobility

Tuesday, 08 October 2024 Read more...

Joan, ITV1 review - the roller-coaster career of a 1980s jewel thief

Saturday, 05 October 2024 Read more...

The Penguin, Sky Atlantic review - power, corruption, lies and prosthetics

Tuesday, 01 October 2024 Read more...

Nightsleeper, BBC One review - strangers on a runaway train

Friday, 20 September 2024 Read more...

The Perfect Couple, Netflix review - an inconvenient death ruins lavish Nantucket wedding

Friday, 13 September 2024 Read more...

The Third Man rides again - 75th anniversary of Carol Reed's noir classic

Friday, 06 September 2024 Read more...

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Album: The Divine Comedy - Rainy Sunday Afternoon

Neil Hannon has been recording and touring as the Divine Comedy since 1989 and has tried a fair few flavours along the way, from chamber pop to...

The Producers, Garrick Theatre review - Ve haf vays of makin...

Unexpectedly, there’s a sly reference to James Joyce’s Ulysses interpolated into Act One (in case we hadn’t caught the not...

Lammermuir Festival 2025, Part 2 review - from the soaringly...

My colleague Boyd Tonkin visited the Lammermuir Festival for the first time this year. His eyes and ears have been opened to its treasures, but...

Frances Wilson: Electric Spark - The Enigma of Muriel Spark...

How do you tell the story of a person’s mind? In the preface to Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark, published this year by...

Blu-ray: The Sons of Great Bear

Westerns had long been popular with German cinema audiences, some of the most successful being early 1960s West German adaptations of novels by...

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review - comedy rock band f...

That difficult second documentary – or if you will, “rockumentary” – seems to have been especially challenging for...

Tosca, Welsh National Opera review - a great company reduced...

So it’s come to this: WNO’s autumn season reduced to two operas, a Tosca borrowed from Opera North and a revival of their own Candide...

Not Your Superwoman, Bush Theatre review - powerful tribute...

The Bush is likely to continue its fine recent run of hit plays, with this funny, poignant, culturally authentic and beautifully acted two-hander...

Music Reissues Weekly: Robyn - Robyn 20th-Anniversary Editio...

Sometimes, record labels don’t like what those on their roster have recorded. Such was the case with BMG Sweden and Robin Carlsson who, as Robyn,...