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Nick Hasted

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Nick Hasted has been a film journalist since 1986. As well as The Arts Desk, he currently writes about film, music, books and comics for The Independent, Uncut, Jazzwise and Classic Rock. He has published three books: The Dark Story of Eminem (2002), You Really Got Me: The Story of The Kinks (2011), and Jack White: How He Built An Empire From The Blues (2016).

Articles By Nick Hasted

The Gatekeepers

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Papadopoulos & Sons

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DVD: The Hunt

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Jack the Giant Slayer

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Interview: Film Director Matteo Garrone

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DVD: The Master

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Sleep Tight

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Oscars 2013: Daniel Day-Lewis

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Side by Side

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Antiviral

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Murder in the Library: An A-Z of Crime Fiction, British Library

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V/H/S

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Midnight Son

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12 Films of Christmas: Gremlins

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theartsdesk in Valletta: the 25th European Film Awards

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theartsdesk Q&A: Director Julien Temple

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Album: Durand and the Indications - Flowers

Neo-soul devotees Durand Jones and the Indications mine a vein of sensuous sounds, at the soft end of a genre that's partly defined by the raw...

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Outrageous, U&Drama review - skilfully-executed depictio...

If somebody submitted a treatment for a new costume drama series set in the...

Music Reissues Weekly: The Sonics - High Time

“Theirs is truly rock in extremis, a précis of the youthful impetuosity and cathartic chaos at the heart of real rock ’n roll.”

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Album: Benson Boone - American Heart

I first had a conversation about Benson Boone without realizing it was him we were talking about. It went something like: “Did...

28 Years Later review - an unsentimental, undead education

The 23 years since 28 Days Later and especially those since Danny Boyle’s soulful encapsulation of Britain’s best spirit at the 2012...

RNCM International Diploma Artists, BBC Philharmonic, MediaC...

Two concerts in the BBC Philharmonic’s series in their own studio form the climax of studies at the Royal Northern College of Music for a small...

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With Brad Pitt’s much-trumpeted F1 movie about to screech noisily into the multiplexes, it’s not a bad time to be reminded of the career of one of...