Tag: Ciarán Hinds

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Review: Girl From The North Country, Old Vic

“Everything’s a little upside down As a matter of fact the wheels have stopped” I’m no great…

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Angela Weiss/Getty Images Cate Blanchett.  Ivo van Hove.  All About Eve.  West End 2018. That is all.

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Film Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

“After all this time?” aka the one that wraps it all up, and pisses it away with…

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Review: The Crucible, Walter Kerr Theatre

“I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder  I heard the phrase avant-garde mentioned several times in…

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Film Review: Mary Reilly (1996)

“I always knew you’d be the death of us.” Even the look on Julia Roberts’ face is…

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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…

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Review: Hamlet, Barbican

“The play’s the thing” See, after all the kerfuffle and an insane (and irresponsible) amount of press…

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DVD Review: Persuasion (1995)

“No-one wants to be in calm waters all their life” Anyone who has read this blog for…

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Album Review: Frozen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

  “It’s time to see what I can do” Disney’s Frozen is as close to a stone-cold…