sun 04/05/2025

Justine Elias

Articles By Justine Elias

A Working Man - Jason Statham deconstructs villains again

Read more...

William Tell review - stirring action adventure with silly dialogue

Read more...

10 Questions for Mark Gatiss, writer-director of 'A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone'

Read more...

Witches review - beyond the broomstick, the cat, and the pointy hat

Read more...

Joy review - the birth pangs of in vitro fertilisation

Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: Alice Lowe on 'Timestalker' and what women rue through the ages

Read more...

Notes from Sheepland review - her farm is her canvas

Read more...

The Critic review - beware the acid-tipped pen

Read more...

Starve Acre review - unearthing the unearthly in a fine folk horror film

Read more...

Cuckoo review - insane time in the Bavarian Alps

Read more...

Trap review - how not to find a serial killer in a haystack

Read more...

The Micro Golden Age of Mid Eighties Fantasy Films

Read more...

Sorcery review - a tale of shapeshifting revenge

Read more...

Rosalie review - a bride embraces her difference

Read more...

Riddle of Fire review - unsubtle but likeable kids' adventure flick

Read more...

Love Lies Bleeding review - a pumped-up neo-noir

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

Help to give theartsdesk a future!

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

Fake, ITV1 review - be careful what you wish for

The art of the conman is persuading their victim to fool themselves, which is the premise that lies at the core of this Australian drama series....

theartsdesk Q&A: film director Déa Kulumbegashvili on he...

One of the most exciting new voices in Eastern European film, Déa Kulumbegashvili is not concerned with conventional shot lengths. She has been...

Music Reissues Weekly: John McKay - Sixes and Sevens

Sixes and Sevens is a surprise. A big one. Since leaving Siouxsie and the Banshees in September 1979, John McKay has...

Pimpinone, Royal Opera in the Linbury Theatre review - farce...

Full marks to the Royal Opera for good planning: one first night knocking us all sideways with the darkest German operatic tragedy followed by...

Krapp's Last Tape, Barbican review - playing with the l...

In the Stygian darkness of a bare room, a table on a low platform with a light hanging overhead starts to emerge. Then a door briefly...

Formula E: Driver, Prime Video review - inside the world...

The success of Netflix’s Drive to Survive not only provoked a viewer-stampede towards the world’s most expensive sport, but also...

Die Walküre, Royal Opera review - total music drama

Wagner’s universe, in the second of his Ring operas which brings semi-humans on board to challenge the gods, matches exaltation and misery, terror...