Adam Sweeting

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Malpractice, ITV1, Series 2 review - fear and loathing in the psychiatric unit

1 week ago | theartsdesk.com | Adam Sweeting

Following on from the first series of Malpractice in 2023, this second season again probes into issues of medical malfeasance and institutional corruption, in an environment where patient care frequently comes second to internal politics and self-preservation. The protagonist first time around was Niamh Algar’s Dr Lucinda Edwards, but this time it’s Tom Hughes as Dr James Ford, who works as a psychiatric registrar at the fictional Queen Mother’s University Hospital.
Fake, ITV1 review - be careful what you wish for

1 week ago | theartsdesk.com | Adam Sweeting

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.
Formula E: Driver, Prime Video review - inside the world's first zero-carbon sport

1 week ago | theartsdesk.com | Adam Sweeting

The success of Netflix’s Drive to Survive not only provoked a viewer-stampede towards the world’s most expensive sport, but also triggered a chain reaction of similar behind-the-scenes sports documentaries. Suddenly we had Break Point (tennis), Full Swing (golf) and Tour de France: Unchained (cycling, obviously), hotly pursued by series on rugby, soccer and American Indiecar racing.
Formula E Driver, Prime Video - inside the world's first zero-carbon sport

1 week ago | theartsdesk.com | Adam Sweeting

The success of Netflix’s Drive to Survive not only provoked a viewer-stampede towards the world’s most expensive sport, but also triggered a chain reaction of similar behind-the-scenes sports documentaries. Suddenly we had Break Point (tennis), Full Swing (golf) and Tour de France: Unchained (cycling, obviously), hotly pursued by series on rugby, soccer and American Indiecar racing.
Mike Peters obituary

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Adam Sweeting

Emerging in the post-punk era at the start of the 1980s, the Welsh rock group the Alarm came to embody an almost evangelical belief in the power of rock’n’roll that won them hordes of devoted fans around the world. Mike Peters, who has died aged 66 from blood cancer, was a tireless and inspiring frontman and songwriter for the group, always ready to expound the virtues of faith, belief and perseverance.
Roy Thomas Baker obituary

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Adam Sweeting

If they had only ever recorded Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen would have been assured of pop immortality. Perhaps the most opulent and outrageous hit single in history, as well as one of the longest, it combined the band’s musical talents with Freddie Mercury’s lavish operatic ambitions, but it needed the technical skills and imagination of their producer Roy Thomas Baker to bring it to fruition, not least the 160 tracks of vocal overdubs.
The Accountant 2 review - belated return of Ben Affleck's lethal bean-counter

2 weeks ago | theartsdesk.com | Adam Sweeting

It’s been nine years since Ben Affleck’s original portrayal of Christian Wolff in The Accountant, who’s not only an accountant but also a super-efficient assassin working for the highest bidders. In this follow-up, again directed by Gavin O’Connor and written by Bill Dubuque, Affleck barely seems to have aged, and he's still solitary, anti-social and probably autistic. However, this time around, a little more black humour has leaked into the drama.
Flintoff, Disney+ review - tumultuous life and times of the great all-rounder

3 weeks ago | theartsdesk.com | Adam Sweeting

Documentaries about sports stars are now a dime a dozen, but you can only be as good as your subject matter. We know Andrew Flintoff (usually known as Freddie) is a larger-than-life character who has had his fair share of both success and failure, but in this new film for Disney+, directed by John Dower, he emerges as a charismatic personality who can inspire undying devotion among friends and teammates while being brutally honest about his own shortcomings.
Neil Young: Coastal review - the old campaigner gets back on the trail

3 weeks ago | theartsdesk.com | Adam Sweeting

As well as generating a ceaseless stream of albums, whether live, studio or culled from his copious archives, Neil Young has also amassed a fairly hefty body of film work, either as director, star or both. Like his music, his movies are created with a kind of confrontational spontaneity, grabbed on the run with rough edges and non-sequiturs still intact. His directorial debut, 1973’s only fleetingly coherent Journey Through the Past, gave early warning of what to expect.
Mike Berry obituary

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Adam Sweeting

Mike Berry, who has died aged 82, became a familiar figure in British living rooms thanks to his role as Mr Spooner, a junior sales assistant, in the innuendo-packed BBC TV sitcom Are You Being Served? He featured in the last three of the show’s 10 series, from 1981 until 1985. But before that, Berry had been a pop star who briefly earned the nickname of “the British Buddy Holly”, thanks to his song A Tribute to Buddy Holly.