Tag: Michael Gambon

Posted in Critics' Choice Television Awards Film & TV awards Penny Dreadful TV

5th Critics’ Choice Television Awards nominees

Best Series Best Comedy Series Broad City (Comedy Central) Jane the Virgin (The CW) Mom (CBS) Silicon…

Posted in Almeida Theatre Blogged Digital Henrik Ibsen Kenneth Branagh Theatre

Review: Ghosts via Digital Theatre (plus thoughts on the filming of theatre more generally)

“You have no idea what this has cost me” There’s something a little ironic about the fact…

Posted in TV

TV Review: Emma (2009)

“He would know me but there’s no reason I would know a farmer” Of all the versions…

Posted in Film

Film Review: Quartet (2012)

“I do hate getting older, I hate every bloody moment of it”  Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut on…

Posted in Alan Ayckbourn Alan Bennett David Hare Digital Eugene O'Neill George Bernard Shaw Harold Pinter Howard Brenton Michael Frayn Musicals National Theatre Noël Coward Peter Shaffer Shakespeare Stephen Sondheim Tennessee Williams Theatre Tom Stoppard Tony Kushner

Review: National Theatre – Fifty Years on Stage

“We’ve got two hours to show the vast range of work the National has done over the…

Posted in Shakespeare Theatre TV

TV Review: Muse of Fire

“We found Shakespeare tough at school”  What a brilliant little film – tucked away on BBC4 but…

Posted in Digital Film Short Films

Short Film Review #12

Instalment 12 of the Short Film Review – keep those recommendations coming and I promise I will…

Posted in Film

Film Review: Gosford Park (2001)

“Now, now, we don’t want to be thought unsophisticated” There’s a rather amusing moment on the Gosford…

Posted in British Independent Film Awards Film Film & TV awards

2012 British Independent Film Awards

Best British Independent Film WINNER – Broken Sightseers The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel The Imposter Berberian Sound…