‘It’s official, old buddy. I’m a has-been.’ – Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019) Review
From the mind of director Quentin Tarantino comes Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, a film which both highlights and tears apart the final few years of the golden age of Hollywood, focusing on the story of actor Rick Dalton as he tries to find success in movies in the...
‘Life all comes down to chance’ – Love, Wedding, Repeat (2020) Review
Let’s be honest here, we are all stuck at home with little else to do but sit in front of the television and scroll endlessly through streaming services and Netflix certainly knows what they are doing by pumping out new content on a seemingly weekly basis. One of...
‘You have small faces’ – All or Nothing Archive Recording review
As lockdown wears on, and the weeks all blur into one, more and more theatre is becoming available to stream online, allowing us to get our fix from the comfort of our own homes. Whilst I will admit to not having heard much about this one when it was running in the...
‘So you see, the story is not quite as you were told’ – Maleficent (2014) review
You can always rely on Disney to twist something around and change the tale just when you think that you know the whole story. Before they started concentrating on live action remakes of their animated classics, Disney took one of those classics and turned it on it’s...
‘The perception of reality is more real than reality’ – Billionaire Boys Club (2018) review
Released in 2018, part biography, part crime thriller Billionaire Boys club stars Ansel Elgort and Taran Egerton as spoilt rich boys Joe Hunt and Dean Karny. Wanting to make their own fortunes instead of sponging off of other people’s, they establish a get rich quick...
‘Jamie is over and Jamie is gone’ – The Last Five Years (2014) review
With the tagline ‘there are two sides to every love story’, Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years is a deconstruction of a marriage set almost entirely to music. We meet Cathy and Jamie, a struggling actress and a successful writer, and are taken through the story...
‘You’re a special kind of people known as show people’ – Curtains Archive Broadcast Review
With the theatres closed, more and more is becoming available online, allowing theatre fans to get their fix from the comfort of their own homes. Recently, we were treated to an archive recording of Curtains, one of the many shows that had it’s tour cut short due to...
‘No one listens to Springsteen anymore. He’s history!’ – Blinded by the Light (2019) review
The power of music is sadly often underestimated in today’s society, where in reality it can have a huge impact on someone’s life. Music can be a comfort in difficult times, a way of bringing people together and an inspiration to many. Power can be found in the...
‘I can’t stop thinking about chips!’ : National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors’
In these trying times, the curtains are drawn and the auditorium doors closed in theatres up and down the country, but in order to keep the industry moving, a number of productions have began to be streamed online. The National Theatre have been showing their...
‘You’re a writer, so write’ – Late Night (2019) review
Late night talk shows may not be much of a thing here in the UK, but over in the US they are big business, and to pioneering talk show host Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) they are everything. Used to be top dog in her field, when she discovers that her ratings are...
‘Put it in O, for Onward!’ – Onward (2020) review
Released into cinemas just at the exact moment when people were really beginning to need an escape from the real world, Disney Pixar’s Onward provides the escapism we are all looking for. Set in a fantasy land where magic has been long forgotten in favour of modern...
‘No King of England, if not King of France’ : Henry V review (Streaming: Barn Theatre)
Now, I am going to start this with some honesty here for I feel that it might set a little bit of the tone for this review. I am not the world’s biggest fan of Shakespeare. Yes, he may be one of the greatest ever playwrights and an absolute genius when it came to...
