review

I’ve patronized Pane e Vino for a number of years. It’s a favourite. But I’d never tried their pizza. I don’t much like pizza, not even when visiting...

Review: Jo Vino

This wine bar, describing itself as a wine service (they do deliveries) situated in a charming 1930s building is a pleasant recent addition to Shanghai’s growing wine...

Review: Caribou @ Zhijiang Dream Factory

When a medium-profile artist like Caribou comes to Shanghai he generates a weird, vaguely excited buzz. In the days leading up to his show, choruses of “Caribou...

SRT: Noel Coward's Private Lives

If you are looking for something a little cultural and a little less boozy than your average weekend activity, head to the Ke Center and check out the Shanghai Repertory...

Movie Review: Bodyguards and Assassins

With a cast of martial-thespians, a sprawling replica of turn-of-the-century Kowloon, and subject matter that sits deep in China’s patriotic heart, it would be a shame if...

Stage Review: Macbeth

It’s the refrain of any old man watching a new generation at play: “They just don’t make ‘em like they used to.” And on the evidence of Concordia...

CD Review: Muse – The Resistance

You’ll either love it or hate it, either way it will take you more than one listen to get the hang of the fifth album from this English trio.

Nowhere near the...

DVD Review: District 9

Set in a former black shantytown of Johannesburg, it's easy to see analogies to apartheid in Neill Blomkamp’s film. But this sci-fi story of human (and not-so-human)...