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Hugh Barnes is a war reporter and author of three books (Special Effects, Gannibal and Understanding Iran) and editor of green-socialist.com

Articles By Hugh Barnes

Powell and Pressburger: Battleships and Byron

Saturday, 28 October 2023 Read more...

Our River... Our Sky review - another people's war

Wednesday, 25 October 2023 Read more...

Powell and Pressburger's 'The Red Shoes' - art and nothing but

Saturday, 21 October 2023 Read more...

20 Days in Mariupol review - carnage in a dying Ukrainian city

Friday, 06 October 2023 Read more...

Strange Way of Life review - Pedro Almodóvar's queer Western

Tuesday, 26 September 2023 Read more...

Side By Side Ukrainian Film Festival, Curzon Soho - cameras of courage and resistance

Wednesday, 20 September 2023 Read more...

Mercy Falls review - horror in the Highlands

Saturday, 02 September 2023 Read more...

The Red Shoes: Next Step review - teen dancer's crisis

Friday, 25 August 2023 Read more...

Lie With Me review - a bittersweet enchantment

Friday, 18 August 2023 Read more...

Masha Karp: George Orwell and Russia review - dystopia's reality

Thursday, 10 August 2023 Read more...

A Kind of Kidnapping review - claustrophobic class-division satire

Saturday, 15 July 2023 Read more...

Andrey Kurkov: Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv review - a city speaks its multitudes

Saturday, 10 June 2023 Read more...

The Blue Caftan review - unstitching repression in Morocco

Wednesday, 10 May 2023 Read more...

Harka review - when hope is a desert

Sunday, 07 May 2023 Read more...

The Laureate review - a romp with Robert Graves

Saturday, 06 May 2023 Read more...

A. Anatoli: Babi Yar - The Story of Ukraine's Holocaust review - a masterpiece uncensored

Friday, 05 May 2023 Read more...

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The Midnight Bell, Sadler's Wells review - A first repr...

Rarely has a revival given a firmer thumbs-up for the future of dance-theatre. Yet Matthew Bourne’s latest show, first aired at the tail-end of...

Album: HAIM - I Quit

Haim’s profile just grows and grows. Since their last album, youngest sibling Alana’s starring role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s whimsical Seventies...

Aldeburgh Festival, Weekend 1 review - dance to the music of...

This year’s Aldeburgh Festival – the 76th – takes as its motto a line from Shelley‘s Prometheus Unbound. The poet speaks of despair “...

Bonnie Raitt, Brighton Dome review - a top night with a char...

If you walked into a bar in the US, say in one of the southern states, and Bonnie Raitt and her band were playing, you’d have the best night of...

Hidden Door Festival 2025 review - the transformative Edinbu...

"When I was your age, I worked in a corrugated cardboard factory!" is a phrase my father was fond of telling me as a teenager, presumably in an...

Edward Burra, Tate Britain review - watercolour made mainstr...

It’s unusual to leave an exhibition liking an artist’s work less than when you went in, but...

Joyceana around Bloomsday, Dublin review - flawless adaptati...

It amuses me that Dubliners dress up in Edwardian finery on 16 June. After all, this was the date in 1904 when James Joyce first walked out with...

Stereophonic, Duke of York's Theatre review - rich slic...

The tag “the most Tony-nominated play of all time” may mean less to London theatregoers than it does to New Yorkers, but Stereophonic,...

Ithell Colquhoun, Tate Britain review - revelations of a wei...

Tate Britain is currently offering two exhibitions...