Robin Kirkey

I never like making snap judgments, but it’s not a promising sign when a thriller shares the same premise as a 1990s family film starring Lindsay Lohan. Echoes, a new seven-part limited series on Netflix, plays out like a twisted…
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My friend and one-time neighbour Cedric Titcombe, who has died aged 81, was an art teacher and artist who worked in many media, producing mostly paintings and drawings but also stone carvings, sculptures, prints, and even masks and kites.…
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The truth-based fiction film has in recent years been joined by a shadowy counterpart: the untruth-based non-fiction film. Joining the ranks of Capturing the Friedmans, Catfish and The Imposter comes documentary My Old School, the…
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For most of his life, the French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé, who has died aged 89, would draw a line at talking publicly about his chaotic and unhappy childhood. He was well into his 80s when he finally admitted that the cheerful…
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Women in hitherto male-dominated sports (such as football in the UK and basketball in the US) are finally getting the mainstream recognition they deserve after years of tokenistic attention from administrators, sponsors and the…
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My wife, Kate Day, who has died aged 52 from pancreatic cancer, was for almost 15 years director of the Manchester Craft and Design Centre, which promotes craft in all its forms and provides studio spaces to about 30 artists each year. Kate…
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Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s multi-faceted documentary recounts a fascinating true crime story that keeps delivering surprises, with sharp storytelling skills and ace editing. Chol Soo Lee, a handsome, charismatic Korean immigrant victim…
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“I have a weird conflicted relationship with musical comedy or musicals. I don’t love them just by default.” This is perhaps a surprising thing to hear from a Tony-winning composer and lyricist of Broadway musicals, but David Yazbek — the…
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The other day I read a book, Vladimir, by Julia May Jonas. It was intriguing and unsettling, but that’s not the point. Its significance is that I finished a novel, something I have struggled to do, aside from holiday binges and for work, in…
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It’s been less than a month since former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson first posted his contempt for Hulu moving forward with “Mike,” the upcoming miniseries based upon his life, without consulting or paying him. Last week, he also…
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