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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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Music Reissues Weekly: Rupert’s People - Dream In My Mind

Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” was an instant phenomenon. Recorded in April 1967 and issued as a single on 12 May after pre-release play...

Fidelio, Garsington Opera review - a battle of sunshine and...

Sometimes, as the first act of Beethoven’s Fidelio closes, the chorus of prisoners discreetly fade away backstage as their brief taste of...

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theartsdesk Q&A: director Andreas Dresen on his anti-Naz...

Andreas Dresen directs socially engaged realist films that invariably relay personal and political messages; the result can be tough but is...

Hercules, Theatre Royal Drury Lane review - new Disney stage...

Many years ago, reviewing pantomime for the first time, I recall looking around in the stalls. My brain was saying, “This is...

Album: JF Robitaille & Lail Arad - Wild Moves

Around eight years ago, London singer-...

Alfred Brendel 1931-2025 - a personal tribute

Alfred Brendel’s death earlier this month came as a shock, but it wasn’t unexpected. His health had gradually deteriorated over the last year or...

Chicken Town review - sluggish rural comedy with few laughs...

Fans of the character comedian Graham Fellows will possibly turn up for this British film starring the man who created the punk parody...

Album: Lorde - Virgin

Lorde’s trajectory is continually fascinating. From the minimalist, sparse electropop of Pure Heroine to the similar but more grandiose...