Reviews
All Things to All MenFriday, 05 April 2013
Sigh: here's not much of anything for anyone, actually, to indulge a self-evident riff on the title of yet another in a seemingly ceaseless parade of subpar Brit-gangster films, this one from first-time writer/director George Isaac, who produced the... Read more... |
Sluggish Morss/Sluggish Morss: A Delicate Time in HistoryFriday, 05 April 2013
It’s easy to understand, while you’re being chastised by a pair of psychedelically coloured elephant-like beings over your inability to collect enough coins, why this new game from indie developer Jake Clover has been described as the most WTF game... Read more... |
A Late QuartetThursday, 04 April 2013
Two’s company, three’s a crowd, four’s a string quartet. Classical music movies tend to focus on the cost of individual brilliance. See David Helfgott in Shine, Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie, not forgetting the talented little man who... Read more... |
The Thrill of Love, St James TheatreThursday, 04 April 2013
Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, is a cultural icon, the image of the peroxide blonde who spells big trouble. An influence on Diana Dors in the 1956 film Yield to the Night, she was played by Miranda Richardson in Dance with a... Read more... |
Laurencia, Mikhailovsky Ballet, London ColiseumWednesday, 03 April 2013
It’s not often you go to a ballet to watch a history lesson unfold, but Laurencia, the 1939 Soviet ballet choreographed by Vakhtang Chabukiani, gives us exactly that, and a gripping one under the froth and fun.Based on the 17th-century playwright... Read more... |
Molly Sweeney, The Print RoomWednesday, 03 April 2013
Molly Sweeney has been blind since early childhood. Supported by her understanding father, she has grown into a confident, independent woman. Then her new husband Frank and an ambitious ophthalmologist, Mr Rice, suggest that it might be possible to... Read more... |
Spring BreakersWednesday, 03 April 2013
Whilst Zac Efron is getting urinated on in The Paperboy, his High School Musical co-star Vanessa Hudgens is taking the piss in an entirely different sense. In Spring Breakers Hudgens and Disney princess Selena Gomez bin their clean-cut images to... Read more... |
The Other Pompeii: Life and Death in Herculaneum, BBC TwoTuesday, 02 April 2013
Ten years ago Peter Nicholson made a BBC drama about Pompeii and its destruction. This fictionalised reconstruction, depicting made-up characters in togas saying made-up things, sounded cheesier than a pound of Brie, but was actually completely... Read more... |
Bach Marathon, Royal Albert Hall/ Nick van Bloss, Institut FrancaisTuesday, 02 April 2013
Bach for breakfast, lunch and supper. That in essence was what yesterday's Bach Marathon was about. You can do that with Bach - have him flowing from the taps. Nothing new in this for those of us who experienced the Bach Christmas a few years back... Read more... |
Jonathan Creek: The Clue of the Savant's Thumb, BBC OneTuesday, 02 April 2013
Three years after Jonathan Creek's last one-off special, tellies across the land resounded once again to the strains of Saint-Saëns's Danse Macabre, a theme tune cunningly chosen to reflect the show's mix of menace, wit and whimsy. Nor had... Read more... |
Emeli Sandé, Usher Hall, EdinburghTuesday, 02 April 2013
Only an April fool would deny Emeli Sandé her right to rule as the home-grown pocket diva for the Smartphone generation. The current elfin queen of the UK pop charts took the stage in Edinburgh last night having already won over her capacity crowd... Read more... |
Game of Thrones, Series 3, Sky AtlanticTuesday, 02 April 2013
We hear ghastly, otherworldly shrieks and human screams over a black screen, which then fades to white and the sight of a man running for this life through a snowy wilderness. As he approaches a seated figure, he cries out, “friend”, only to find... Read more... |
