FILM REVIEW | The Hundred Foot Journey
★ | The Hundred Foot Journey A more apt title for this preposterous and painfully unfunny comedy would be ‘Lost in Translation’. Based on a best-selling novel by Richard C. […]
FILM REVIEW | CitizenFour
★★★★★ | CitizenFour After you have watched Laura Poitras’s powerful documentary on the NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden you will never want to use your bank debit card, mobile phone or […]
FILM REVIEW | Mr. Turner
★★★★★ | Mr. Turner Mike Leigh’s stunning biopic of J.M.W.Turner is the portrait of the leading English Romantic landscape artist who was evidently also quite a philanderer and misanthrope too. […]
BOOK REVIEW | The Great Discovery, Jonathan Lemieux
★★★★★ | The Great Discovery, Jonathan Lemieux You know me and my love for erotic fiction – oh, you don’t? Ok, I love words, they are sensuous and arousing, they […]
FILM REVIEW | Me, Myself And Mum
★★★★ | Me, Myself And Mum Guillaume has to ‘come out’ to his entire family but that’s no easy task in this quirky French comedy which has a neat twist […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Dickens With a Difference, Trafalgar Studios, London
★★★ | Dickens With a Difference, Trafalgar Studios, London What can be more festive than Charles Dickens with his depiction of Victorian London in ‘A Christmas Carol”? Trafalgar Studios has […]
THEATRE REVIEW: Northern Ballet’s Peter Pan, Leeds Grand Theatre
Join Peter, Wendy, Michael and John as they fly off against a backdrop of stars to Neverland in search of adventure. Teaming up with the Lost Boys, the friends are […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Anything Goes – Sheffield Crucible Theatre and National Tour
★★★★★ | Anything Goes – Sheffield Crucible Theatre and National Tour It’s all aboard for high camp on the high seas, as the SS American sets sail from New York […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Apartment 40C
★★★★ | Apartment 40C Relationships are difficult things; from their tenuous beginnings through to their rocky patches, moments of pure joy and sometimes bitter dissolutions. Apartment 40c looks at the […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Treasure Island, the Curse of the Pearl Necklace, Above The Stag
Well it’s almost Christmas and the silly season has started, and what better way to spend a couple of silly hours than at the Above the Stag theatre in Vauxhall […]
THEATRE REVIEW | White Christmas, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
★★★★★ | White Christmas, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds Army pals turned song and dance men, Phil Davies and Bob Wallace, are on their way to Florida for Christmas, when they […]