Deborah Ross

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Deborah Ross

The front page of The Times on Tuesday told us all to go and look at art. Stop scrolling. Ditch the productivity app. Ignore your inbox. Turn the gas off under the chip pan — you’ll so regret that if you don’t — and gaze at something beautiful instead. That’s the gist of a study by the University of Cambridge which says that contemplating art boosts abstract thinking, provides relief from anxiety, allows for greater clarity and frees up the mind.

1 week ago | spectator.com.au | Deborah Ross

Riefenstahl15, Nationwide Leni Riefenstahl: what are we to make of her? What did she know? Often described as ‘Hitler’s favourite filmmaker’, she always claimed that she knew nothing of any atrocities. She was a naive artist, not a collaborator in a murderous regime. This documentary wants to get to the truth. But even if you’ve already made your own mind up – I had! – it’s still a mesmerising portrait of the kind of person who cannot give up on the lies they’ve told themselves.

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Deborah Ross

2 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Deborah Ross

Slade in Flame12A, Nationwide Slade in Flame was glam-rock band Slade’s first foray into film – and also their last. It was a flop on its release in 1975 and that would have been that, end of story, gone and forgotten, except it has been rediscovered in recent years, with critic Mark Kermode even hailing it as ‘the Citizen Kane of British pop movies’.

2 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Deborah Ross

Slade in Flame was glam-rock band Slade’s first foray into film – and also their last. It was a flop on its release in 1975 and that would have been that, end of story, gone and forgotten, except it has been rediscovered in recent years, with critic Mark Kermode even hailing it as ‘the Citizen Kane of British pop movies’.