Miriam Balanescu

1 week ago | ft.com | Miriam Balanescu

The Arcola Theatre, tucked a few streets back from Dalston Kingsland’s busy market, is nearly empty when I arrive.

1 week ago | ign.com | Miriam Balanescu

Patience debuted on PBS Sunday, June 15. New episodes air weekly. Despite its endeavor to take a new approach to the police procedural, Patience – British screenwriter Matt Baker’s plodding six-part series revolving around an autistic police archivist-turned-investigator – leans on tired tropes at every turn. Much like staples of the genre like Psych or Monk, it hopes to cash in on the dazzling special skills and enigmatic unconventionality of its central detective.

1 week ago | observer.co.uk | Miriam Balanescu

Rowe Irvin’s first novel, Life Cycle of a Moth, begins with a harrowing act of violence, seen from the point of view of a fox. Sixteen years later, it is a stranger with fox-red hair, Wyn, who comes traipsing unwittingly into the woodland refuge of Maya and her unnamed child, away from “rotten” humankind. But their hideaway is no Eden.

2 weeks ago | empireonline.com | Miriam Balanescu

A mother (Posy Sterling) is released from prison, thinking her ordeal is over, only to be trapped in a hellish Catch-22 trying to regain custody of her two children. In the UK, working-class cinema has been enjoying a renaissance, from Rocks to indie goldies like Scrapper, Pretty Red Dress and Girl. Mike Leigh is firmly back with Hard Truths and Harris Dickinson’s Urchin has freshly premiered in Cannes.

1 month ago | indiewire.com | Miriam Balanescu

Pedro Pinho’s sophomore feature is boundary-crossing in all senses. An international, polylingual co-production between his home country, France, Brazil, and Romania, “I Only Rest in the Storm” is set in a chimerical blend of West Africa’s Guinea-Bissau and the surrounding French-speaking regions, its almost uncontainable three-and-a-half-hour runtime spanning the various sprawling landscapes.