Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
It was speculated at one time that SPECTRE had masterminded the theft of the Goya painting, The Duke of Wellington, from the National Gallery, and that James Bond had tracked it down to the lair of Dr No on Crab …
There’s a doggy bag of takeaway in DOG, a movie whose main meal is a bubble and squeak hodge podge, but the leftovers are a nevertheless tasty, if not necessarily a treat.
Traumatised war veterans is the serious side of …
Not so much a screwball comedy, but a screw loose comedy, FRIENDS AND STRANGERS makes friends with the audience despite, or maybe because, of its strangeness.
Written and Directed by James Vaughan, FRIENDS AND STRANGERS is a surreal curve …
Scenes from a marriage played out on symbolic turf, BERGMAN ISLAND is more than a mere tribute film to Ingmar Bergman. It’s a little masterpiece in its own right.
Providing further proof that Vicky Krieps is one …
“This wasn’t the first time I’d encountered a dead body.” That’s the solid brick opening line of BRUNSWICK STREET BLUES, the deadly debut novel by Sally Bothroyd.
It may not be the first dead body she’d encountered, but it’s …
Certainly not a magic bullet for insomnia, indeed, WHATEVER GETS YOU THROUGH THE NIGHT is the whatever, so be warned, do not start this book as bedtime reading if you want to have a good night’s rest.
With a prologue …
A salon piece of chamber opera, IT’S STILL HER VOICE is a mash up of Poulenc’s opera La Voix Humaine written in 1958 inspired by Cocteau’s play of the same name (The Human Voice) written in 1928.
The main prop …
The best thing about THE BATMAN is the villains.
Matt Reeves’ three hour belfry tour through a Gothic Gotham serves up three vile felons for the caped crusader to bif, zap and pow with.
Colin Farrell is a fabulously oily …
Can you be a happy clapper if your hands are covered in glove puppets?
The answer is a resounding no in Robert Askins’ play HAND OF GOD.
Actually, the title is a lie. The hand puppet is a full sleeve …
Pithy and zesty, Kirsty Marillier’s debut play, ORANGE THROWER is a compact calling card for an emerging writer ready to be noticed.
A four-hander with six characters, ORANGE THROWER is an examination of assimilation and aspiration, of migrant expectation and …