
predestination
Brothers, can you spare a paradigm?
Look, all you zombies, there’s a game changer in the retro time travel movie genre and it’s been made right here.
Written and directed by the Spierig Brothers, Michael and Peter, who freshened up …
Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.

Brothers, can you spare a paradigm?
Look, all you zombies, there’s a game changer in the retro time travel movie genre and it’s been made right here.
Written and directed by the Spierig Brothers, Michael and Peter, who freshened up …


Kevin Smith takes pot-shots at shock jocks, religious hypocrisy, and gun control in his latest film, the subversive, sinister and oh so skewed, TUSK (MA).
Come on, be a smarty, come and listen to the Not See Party. The Not …

A film that has pretensions to be a novel, THE JUDGE is a drawn out case of filial indemnity and felonious intention.
Robert Downey Jnr is a hotshot big city attorney making a homecoming for the funeral of his mother.…

“It’s sad, but funny.” says Howie, partway through his opening monologue. He could well be talking about this play, HOWIE THE ROOKIE.
In prose that has the lyrical lilt of poetry, Mark O’Rowe’s powderkeg of a play is packed with …

There’s a line in R.C.Sherriff’s powerful play JOURNEY’S END where the Colonel says to Osborne “I’m certain you’ll put up a good show.”
That line has an added resonance when The Theatre Troupe’s production opens at the Reginald at the …

A decade ago Ben Affleck’s career looked gone. His fortunes went into turn around when he directed Gone Baby, Gone and he received the tinsel town all is forgiven for Gigli seal of approval when he took home Oscar for …

Stephen Adly Guirgis is garrulous. Three of the quintet of characters in his script THE MOTHERF**KER WITH THE HAT could, as they say, talk the leg off a table.
The play begins with a telephone conversation between Veronica and her …

Diaries in the digital age seem a quaint remnant from a bygone era.
For cold, hard appointment keeping, your tablet or phone is perfectly adequate.
But for concise elegance in date data, THE FABER & FABER POETRY DIARY 2015 is …


In the light of the recent shooting down of the Malaysian Airlines flight over the Ukraine, the Russian villains depicted in the film version of the television series, THE EQUALIZER, take on a much more vile and sinister mantle.
Denzel …

Robert Galbraith’s impossibly named private detective Cormoran Strike makes his second appearance in the sequel to The Cuckoo’s Calling in THE SILKWORM (Sphere).
Set in the world of publishing, a suitable maelstrom of jealousy, insecurity, and creative accounting, Strike is …
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