Tag: Christopher Fairbank
TV Review: Scoop
Some powerful acting makes the process of getting a controversial Newsnight interview rather interesting in Scoop “An…
TV Review: Five Days (Series 1)
Gwyneth Hughes’ Five Days proves an interesting take on your standard crime procedural “Someone has to know…
Film Review: The Little Mermaid (2023)
DIsney’s live-action remakes continue apace with The Little Mermaid but for little substantive reward “I’m trying to…
TV Review: Sherwood
One of the shows of the year. James Graham’s Sherwood is magisterial, full of stonkingly good acting…
TV Review: Silent Witness Series 2
Series 2 of Silent Witness sees the show quickly slip into the patterns that bristle against the…
TV Review: Merlin Series 1
Looking for an inoffensive lockdown series to binge? I decide to revisit Merlin… “You hear the word…
Film Review: Lady Macbeth (2017)
Who needs Shakespeare when you have William Oldroyd and Alice Birch to give us a chillingly excellent…
Review: Albion, Almeida Theatre
“The fantasy that brings the reality into being” As Mike Bartlett’s profile grows and grows, one can’t…
Review: The Memory of Water / And Then There Were None / A Special Kind of Dark, Radio 4
“You’ve got that slight edge in your voice, like a blunt saw” Shelagh Stephenson’s The Memory of…
