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I watched this movie ages ago with friends, but it's worth a re-watch. I love a good thriller. Reflecting now on how Emily Blunt and...

Whilst worthy and noble in its topic and sentiment, I think it's a racist film. It is very well made, but throughout the 'Africans' (here...

Though it's a disaster movie, and, well, disaster movies feel like the news these days, this is a really enjoyable 'in peril' movie....

I came fully prepared to dislike this production - just unconvinced by female Hamlet. But I was wrong! Again, really thankful for an...

A series of stories/columns in a filmed version of a local magazine for fictional French town. There's a crazed artist in prison and how...

Wonderful online version of three plays and brilliant to be supporting live theatre (thank you Lyric Hammersmith), and contemporary plays...

Photo of Life of Pi stage - author's own @27/11/2021 I wasn't expecting to like the Lion King musical, but it did blow me away... Tho...

Really late in watching this, partly because of the content. But this outstanding film stands alongside Schindler's List in portraying a...

For my discussion here, I will, sadly, be focusing on my negative experiences in churches and not on the many kindnesses and good things...

I was only here for Nigel Havers. I'm not sure this play has aged well. Is it funny to laugh at domestic violence or watch a couple beat...

Having been traumatised by the old Dune movie with Sting, lots of 80s mullets and the spit, I didn't want to go anywhere near the new...

We begin in prison with Thomas Cromwell as he awaits his fate. He is haunted by ghosts (Cardinal Wolsey - dancing, his father -...

I didn't know what to expect - it seems to have had a limited release in the UK. Which turns out to be a shame because it's brilliant and...

Image from the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/oct/14/the-cherry-orchard-review-ian-mckellen-is-brilliantly-poignant-in-...

Photo author's own - on stage with a plantation background - 23rd October 2021 Andrea Levy's work is amazing - hard hitting and yet...

I couldn't wait for friends or for Bond any longer. Enough - 30th September I was there! *Loads of spoilers ahead - basically don't read...

Again it has happened... a woman goes for a walk and can't...in this case the sorrowful case of Sabina Nessa. I don't want to jump on a...

Photo from the stage show author's own @18th September 2021 Fast talking screwball comedy musical from 1934 set on an ocean going liner....

I feel like I've watched a French film in English. Jude Law is actually allowed to act, rather than just look pretty, and he is a man...

Image from the Bridge Theatre production This is the first play I couldn't clap. I have no idea if Bach, his family, his relationships...