Tag: Jason Watkins

Posted in Anton Chekhov Barbican Theatre Duncan Macmillan Theatre Theatre review Thomas Ostermeier

Review: The Seagull, Barbican Theatre

Cate Blanchett leads an impressively starry ensemble but Thomas Ostermeier and Duncan Macmillan’s take on The Seagull…

Posted in Film

Film Review: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason proves an awkwardly flat sequel “I think you’re completely off your…

Posted in Inside No. 9 Mark Gatiss TV

12 Days of Inside No. 9 – Series 9

Inside No. 9 reaches Series 9, and possibly the end, in quite some style “We haven’t just…

Posted in Inside No. 9 TV

12 Days of Inside No. 9 – Series 3

Series 3 of Inside No. 9 may contain its first real duffer but also has some of…

Posted in TV

TV Review: The Virgin Queen

As Anne-Marie Duff prepares for The Little Foxes, I look back to 2005’s The Virgin Queen “She’s…

Posted in Anton Chekhov Barbican Theatre Duncan Macmillan News Theatre Thomas Ostermeier

News: All-star cast join Cate Blanchett and Tom Burke in The Seagull

Further cast members joining Cate Blanchett and Tom Burke in a new version of Chekhov’s The Seagull…

Posted in Film

Film Review: Wicked Little Letters (2023)

Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley lead the sprightly Wicked Little Letters “This story is more true than…

Posted in Gwyneth Hughes TV

TV Review: Five Days (Series 1)

Gwyneth Hughes’ Five Days proves an interesting take on your standard crime procedural “Someone has to know…

Posted in Mark Gatiss TV

TV Review: A Ghost Story for Christmas – Count Magnus

Just a year late, I catch up with Count Magnus, last year’s Ghost Story for Christmas “He…