Tag: David Calder

Posted in Inside No. 9 TV

12 Days of Inside No. 9 – Series 4

There’s high points in Series 4 of Inside No. 9 – Nicola Walker, Monica Dolan, ZoĆ« Wanamaker…

Posted in Laura Wade TV

TV Review: Rivals (Series 1)

Disney+’s entertainingly lavish version of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals is cast to the hilt but a little hollow…

Posted in Christmas TV

TV Review: Motherland – Last Christmas

With Anna Maxwell Martin and a shirtless Oliver Chris, Motherland – Last Christmas is a real festive…

Posted in Bond Film

Film Review: The World Is Not Enough (1999)

What a clunker! Garbage’s brilliant theme song deserved so much better than The World Is Not Enough…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Bridge Theatre Curve Theatre Digital Jonathan Harvey Musicals National Theatre Not-London Shakespeare Theatre UK

Some theatre news from the last week

New interview series from the NT, Julius Caesar and Sunset Boulevard reappearing digitally and Hushabye Mountain coming…

Posted in TV

TV Review: Motherland Christmas special

Motherland continues to excel with this sharp-edged and scabrously funny Christmas special “What absolute shite are you…

Posted in TV Waking the Dead

TV Review: Waking the Dead Series 5

With the loss of two original cast members, Series 5 of Waking the Dead really does ring…

Posted in Howard Brenton Spooks TV

Lockdown TV Review: Spooks Series 1

I had already started a rewatch of Spooks earlier this year as part of a planned Nicola…

Posted in Bridge Theatre Shakespeare Theatre Theatre review

Review: Julius Caesar, Bridge Theatre

“He thinks too much – such men are dangerous” Though it is billed as ‘a promenade staging’…