Tag: Alistair Petrie

Posted in Penelope Skinner TV

TV Review: The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies

Conman thriller The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies is a curiously watchable thing…

Posted in Film

Film Review: Hampstead (2017)

Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson bring ample charm to Hampstead but some seriously poor writing fatally lets…

Posted in TV

TV Review: Cranford

As the nights darken, a rewatch of the delightful Cranford might be just the thing “What about…

Posted in Agatha Christie TV

TV Review: Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

Directed by Hugh Laurie, Agatha Christie adaptation Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? is an diverting bit of…

Posted in Jonathan Creek TV

TV Review: Jonathan Creek, Series 2

The second series of Jonathan Creek continues the good form of the first, even if the writing…

Posted in Jonathan Harvey News Phoebe Waller-Bridge Theatre

News: Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Olivia Colman launch theatre support fund

With a long list of major founding donors, including Danny Boyle, Emilia Clarke, Tom Hiddleston, James McAvoy,…

Posted in Film Mark Gatiss

Hallowe’en Film Review: Victor Frankenstein (2015)

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

Posted in TV

DVD Review: Emma (1996 TV)

“Dear Emma bears everything so well” Andrew Davies’ adaptation of Emma for the television may have suffered…

Posted in Lee Hall Theatre Tom Stoppard West End

Review: Shakespeare in Love, Noël Coward Theatre

“What kind of man would you be without the theatre” I can’t lie – I had rather…