Tag: Joanna Brookes

Posted in Film

Film Review: The Strays (2023)

Nathaniel Martello-White makes an impressive writer/director debut in twisty horror film The Strays on Netflix “Exactly Ian,…

Posted in TV

TV Review: The Windsors, Series 2

Series 2 of The Windsors ups the absurdity and the satire of this cracking TV show, with…

Posted in TV

TV Review: The Bletchley Circle Series 1

Rachael Stirling and Anna Maxwell Martin are fantastic in Series 1 of The Bletchley Circle, which I’ve…

Posted in Jonathan Creek TV

TV Review: Jonathan Creek, Series 4

Series 4 sees Jonathan Creek lose its way badly as chauvinism slides into misogyny amid Alan Davies…

Posted in Donmar Warehouse Lyric Hammersmith Shakespeare Theatre Watford Palace Young Vic

Blogged: shaking up Shakespeare

I have a mixed time with some shaken-up Shakespeares – othellomacbeth at the Lyric Hammersmith; Twelfth Night at…

Posted in Film LGBTQ+

Film Review: Their Finest (2016)

“He is an actor. Unless you have reviewed him, had intercourse with him, or done both simultaneously,…

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Film Review: The Infidel (2010)

“Solly Shimshillewitz? Why didn’t they just call you “Jewie-jew-jew-jew-jew” and be done with it?” Not having seen…

Posted in Radio Plays Theatre

Review: Votes for Women/The Magnificent Andrea, Radio 3/4

“No decent woman will be able to say suffrage without blushing for another generation” Part of a…

Posted in Radio Plays Theatre

Review: Dangerous Visions – Radio 4

“What would this devastated world be without us?” Radio 4 recently put together a season of work…