Review: National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (2017)
Meta is a very particular brand of humour, but rarely is it done with the level of wit as distinguishes Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and…
Film Review: Churchill (2017)
Perhaps it is a reflection of these memoir-happy times that something like Churchill comes to our screens now – a true story that can…
Film Review: The Zookeeper’s Wife (2017)
As much as it is remembered for its brutality, World War II is also the source of countless acts of heroism large and small,…
Film Review: Free Fire (2016)
Director Ben Wheatley’s vein of comedy is darker than most. It is probably a dark shade of red actually. He and screenwriting buddy Amy…
Film Review: Summer 1993 (2017)
The age of six is a confusing time to be alive. It is a time when you feel like you’re starting to come to…
Film Review: Voyage of the Southern Sun (2017)
If you happened to hear about a circumnavigation of the globe by boat plane a bit over a year ago, there’s a good chance…
Film Review: The Country Doctor (2016)
Films predicated on the chasm between city and country people can often fall into the territory of twee without much effort – farmyard geese…
Film Review: Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Just for a second let’s put to one side the claims of whitewashing that have dogged Rupert Sanders’ Hollywood reboot of Ghost in the…
Film Review: The LEGO Batman Movie (2017)
Nearly everyone had to have been pleasantly surprised by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s The LEGO Movie a few years ago. The jokes were sharp,…
Film Review: Loving (2016)
For such a poignant topic, it seems cheap to employ a pun to describe a film called Loving, yet that is the word that first…