Tag: Michael Culkin

Posted in Peter Morgan The Crown TV

TV Review: The Crown, Series 1

“To do nothing is the hardest job of all”  It’s taken a little time to getting round…

Posted in Peter Morgan The Crown TV

TV Review: The Crown Episodes 1 + 2

“The country needs to be led by someone strong” You’d be hard-pressed not to know that Netflix…

Posted in Da Vinci's Demons TV

DVD Review: Da Vinci’s Demons Series 2

“This could be the gateway to extraordinary things” The second series of Da Vinci’s Demons continues the…

Posted in Da Vinci's Demons TV

DVD Review: Da Vinci’s Demons Series 1

“War has always been the handmaiden of progress” From its opening moments of buttocks and blood (both…

Posted in David Hare Film

Film Review: The Hours (2012)

“I seem to have fallen out of time” Based on Michael Cunningham’s novel of the same name,…

Posted in Film Mike Leigh

Film Review: Mr Turner (2014)

“There’s no room for cynicism in the reviewing of art” One might equally say there’s no room…

Posted in Film Martin Sherman

Film Review: Mrs Henderson Presents (2005)

 “I’m bored with widowhood” As the aristocratic Lady Conway, Thelma Barlow’s amusing run through the options open…

Posted in Film Short Films

Short film reviews #8

Another collection of short films that I’ve been pointed to or had recommended to me and which…

Posted in Film Oscar Wilde Theatre

Film Review: An Ideal Husband (1999)

“Sooner or later, we shall all have to pay for what we do” Oliver Parker’s first Wilde…