Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Preposterous good luck and calamity plague the pages of GILLIAMESQUE, a pre-posthumous memoir by Terry Gilliam, Monty Python’s Pythagorean animator and pithy picture maker in his own write.
What apparently started out as a high class coffee table book of …
The creepy Krays, twin crim kingpins, ruled the London underworld in the early Sixties.
On the surface, Swinging London, was home to dance craze, music craze and fashion craze, and underneath it all was the Krays.
They were quite the …
A musical based on serial killings? Well there’s Sweeney Todd. But that was a highly stylised Broadway number, a Gothic thriller. LONDON ROAD is a musical of a very different stripe,…
A chick flick no swinging dick should flick, MISS YOU ALREADY is a bosom buddy movie in the most profound way.
Very honest and very bloody funny, it’s the story of an enduring friendship between Milly and Jess, who became …
The piece is a peon to Ted Hughes’ CROW but the reader is reminded in rhythm and rhyme quite quickly and emphatically of Dylan Thomas at the beginning of the loquacious locomotion of Max Porter’s GRIEF IS THE THING WITH …
An invention of whom Ian Fleming would be proud, inheritance has been well and aptly bestowed upon Anthony Horowitz’s continuation James Bond novel, TRIGGER MORTIS.
TRIGGER MORTIS picks up immediately after Goldfinger, and finds Bond domestically ensconced with Pussy Galore. …
SICARIO is scary, think TRAFFIC meets THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.
SICARIO creates an unsettling experience before we see a single image courtesy of Johann Johannson’s doom laden score conjuring dread, death, destruction and the drums of war.
And then …
Arguably the best thing about the botched British flagwaver, A ROYAL NIGHT OUT, (which richly deserved its right royal rogering from critics and audiences) was the performance of Bel Powley as the teenage Princess Margaret.
In DIARY OF A TEENAGE …
The wheels literally came off the opening night performance of MINUS ONE SISTER.
Everyone of the four cast members were working perfectly when one of the four castors on the bed, central to the wrapped in plastic set, gave way.…
“Any more absorbing it’d be a tea towel” says one of the characters in BLINKY BILL THE MOVIE, and he’s right. Too right!
Screenwriter Fin Edquist has fashioned a quintessential quest film from the character created by Dorothy Wall and …