Wildling (2018)
2018-04-24
I wanna tell you a story. No, not the title of Max Bygrave’s autobiography, but the opening to Fritz Böhm’s directorialContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: War Horse
2018-04-19
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. Alas, the same can’t be said aboutContinue Reading
Love, Simon (2018)
2018-04-18
As he says in his opening voice-over, cute teenager Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) leads a “perfectly normal life” and isContinue Reading
Ghost Stories (2018)
2018-04-17
It may have more twists than a Chubby Checker convention, but to use the title of another track by theContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
2018-04-12
No swirl of fog which thins into a clearing. No subtle shift of lighting from dusk to dawn. But theContinue Reading
A Quiet Place (2018)
2018-04-12
It’s day 89. Not in the Big Brother House or since Anthony McPartlin had a slug of the demon drinkContinue Reading
Unsane (2018)
2018-04-11
In the joy that was Misery, Annie Wilkes was novelist Paul Sheldon’s “number one fan”. That was until she tookContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: This House
2018-04-11
On the same day that “Big Bad John” Bercow received a round of applause in the House of Commons forContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: The Case of the Frightened Lady
2018-03-27
Four days after the Studd by name and stud by nature chauffer (Joshua Wichard) is strangled by a red silkContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Rhinoceros
2018-03-25
The lights are on, but nobody’s home at the start of kilted director Murat Daltaban’s terrific production of Rhinoceros, wonderfully adaptedContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Richard III
2018-03-24
With the width, depth and height of Perth Theatre fully exposed, the inner workings of the stage is laid bareContinue Reading
Wonder Wheel (2017)
2018-03-15
Ebbing had three billboards, Coney Island has one. And its weathered appearance and empty boast sets the tone for WoodyContinue Reading
You Were Never Really Here (2018)
2018-03-13
It’s a dog eat dog world. And the dogged assassin with the hangdog face Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) is top dog. IfContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Hairspray
2018-03-13
Before the curtain ascends, a rainbow of colour bedazzles the audience in the form of stage lights which fix theirContinue Reading