Tag: Nicholas Burns

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TV Review: The Serpent Queen (Series 2)

Minnie Driver is a striking addition to Series 2 of The Serpent Queen but sadly not enough…

Posted in TV

TV Review: The Serpent Queen (Series 1)

Samantha Morton and Liv Hill are huge amounts of fun as Catherine de’ Medici in the raucous…

Posted in Alan Bennett Film Richard Eyre

Film Review: Allelujah (2022)

Alan Bennett’s 2018 play Allelujah gets a lavishly cast film adaptation but it’s still a headscratcher of…

Posted in Moira Buffini TV

12 Days of Lesley Manville ā€“ 8: Harlots (Series 3)

Largely (and unfairly) overlooked, the third and final season of Harlots brings the series to a fitting…

Posted in Film

Film Review: Hope Gap (2019)

Hope Gap sees Annette Bening and Bill Nighy star in this chilly depiction of divorce by the…

Posted in Courttia Newland Rebecca Lenkiewicz TV

TV Review: Small Axe

Steve McQueen’s anthology flm series Small Axe is an absolute triumph as it depicts the West Indian…

Posted in EV Crowe Lyric Hammersmith Mike Bartlett News Not-London Orange Tree Theatre Royal Court Royal Exchange Theatre UK Winsome Pinnock

News: Lockdown Theatre Festival brings four cancelled shows to radio

Plays by writers including Mike Bartlett and EV Crowe that were forced to close early because of…

Posted in Film

Lockdown film review: Emma. (2020)

Autumn de Wilder offers an Emma. with a contemporary sensibility but not much sense “Mother, you MUST…

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…