THEATRE REVIEW: Shakespeare in Love
2018-11-14
A light hearted comedy of mistaken identities, breath-taking poetry and love beyond social status. The King’s Theatre and Shakespeare inContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: The Last Days of Mankind
2018-11-14
Staged during the centenary of the armistice and drawing numerous parallels to the media climate of today, the poignancy ofContinue Reading
Widows (2018)
2018-11-10
Widows, based on the novel by Lynda La Plante, and previously adapted for a BBC television series, centres on theContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: The Last Witch
2018-11-10
It can be difficult to envisage a time when in Scotland, if a woman was in any way perceived asContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Vulcan 7
2018-11-06
Holed up in a trailer in the eye of an Icelandic storm, with the wind howling and the temperature plummeting,Continue Reading
Making a Murderer Part 2 – TV Series (2015– )
2018-11-05
This Netflix documentary is terrifying, beautiful and bang up to date. Set against the homely backdrop of the American Midwest,Continue Reading
Anna and the Apocalypse (2018)
2018-11-04
In the introduction to an exclusive screening of Anna And The Apocalypse at the Hippodrome in Bo’ness, director John McPhailContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Nye & Jennie
2018-11-03
Grief, it is said, is the price we pay for having loved. And the silver thread of grief which lacesContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Dracula
2018-10-31
Bonkers. Utterly bonkers. But entertainingly so. Cheryl Campbell’s wildly eccentric Lady Renfield doesn’t care for pale people. Neither, it wouldContinue Reading
Columbus (2017)
2018-10-29
Casey (Haley Lu Richardson), lives in Columbus, Indiana, with her mother. She works at a local library, and knows justContinue Reading
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
2018-10-26
With a 12A certificate, Bohemian Rhapsody by the Oscar-nominated writer of Darkest Hour and The Theory of Everything, Anthony McCarten,Continue Reading
The Hate U Give (2018)
2018-10-25
“Being black is an honour,” says former Black Panther activist Maverick by name, maverick by nature Carter (Russell Hornsby) toContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: The Unreturning
2018-10-25
No man is an island, wrote the cleric poet Donne. An assertion which the characters in Anna Jordan’s intense andContinue Reading
The Cry (TV Mini-Series 2018– )
2018-10-24
This series filmed between Glasgow and Australia was met with rather high expectations following on from ‘The bodyguard’ as BritishContinue Reading