The Greatest Showman (2017)
2018-01-09
In the same week that Formula One racing driver Lewis Hamilton provoked a fast and furious backlash from the TwitteratiContinue Reading
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
2018-01-09
As the disappointed bishop said to the under-performing actress: “You didn’t blow me away.” The ending, in particular, as flatContinue Reading
MUSIC REVIEW: Luca Manning Quintet
2017-12-18
Given how impressive the Luca Manning Quintet were at The Jazz Bar in December, I had high hopes for both heContinue Reading
Stronger (2017)
2017-12-13
To quote the title of a popular poem by the American playwright Eugene O’Neill, Jeff Bauman (Jake Gyllenhaal) is “AContinue Reading
Better Watch Out (2017)
2017-12-12
A pretty young girl is slapped in the face, her defenceless body bound to a chair and her screams silencedContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Rudolf
2017-12-12
What do you get if you rub one stick against another stick? No, not a punchline or a spark withContinue Reading
The Disaster Artist (2017)
2017-12-08
At one point in this zany retelling of the worst film in the world, The Room by man of mysteryContinue Reading
Battle of the Sexes (2017)
2017-11-29
“Someday,” says camp fashion designer Ted Tinling (Alan Cumming) to closeted tennis player Billie Jean King (Emma Stone), “we willContinue Reading
Suburbicon (2017)
2017-11-28
It’s Sunday in Suburbicon and we’ve got all the time in the world. So says Margaret (Julianne Moore) to herContinue Reading
Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond
2017-11-22
During filming of Milos Foreman’s 1999 Andy Kaufman biopic Man On The Moon starring Jim Carrey, no one saw JimContinue Reading
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
2017-11-16
Off the back of Moonlight’s (or was it La La Land? Ha ha…..) success at last years Oscars, it’s almostContinue Reading
The Florida Project (2017)
2017-11-16
If single mother on-the-slide Halley (Bria Vinaite) is the Titanic, then her resilient daughter on-the-rise Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) is the bandContinue Reading
Breathe (2017)
2017-10-29
Hot on the heels (or rather wheelchair treads) of Eddie Redmayne’s Oscar-winning turn in The Theory Of Everything, based uponContinue Reading
MUSIC REVIEW: ANNAHAR
2017-10-26
by Brian Campbell On paper Fife trio Annahar have it all: infectious melodies, smoothly soaring vocals, good looks and aContinue Reading