Category: Mark Gatiss

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Hallowe’en Film Review: Victor Frankenstein (2015)

“This is not life” Released last year, Victor Frankenstein has the ignominy of being something of a…

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Review: The Boys in the Band, Park Theatre

“You show me a happy homosexual, and I’ll show you a gay corpse” It’s been almost 20…

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2016 Laurence Olivier Awards winners

Best New Play  Hangmen by Martin McDonagh – Jerwood Downstairs, Royal Court / Wyndham’s Farinelli and the…

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2016 Laurence Olivier Awards nominations

Best New Play  Farinelli and the King by Claire van Kampen – Duke of York’s Hangmen by…

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Winners of the 2016 What’s On Stage Awards

  Best Actor In A Play Sponsored By Radisson Blu Edwardian: WINNER – Benedict Cumberbatch, Hamlet James…

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TV Review: Wolf Hall

“By the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus” Peter Straughan’s adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall and…

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TV Review: London Spy

 “People lie Danny, they lie very well”  Well this was a disappointment wasn’t it, there’s no two…

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2016 What’s On Stage Award nominations

Best Actor In A Play Sponsored By Radisson Blu Edwardian: Benedict Cumberbatch, Hamlet James McAvoy, The Ruling Class Bradley…

Posted in Film Mark Gatiss

DVD Review: Agatha Christie – A Life In Pictures

“There was a motivation…”  This is a curious thing – a drama-documentary of legendary mystery writer Agatha…