Tag: Nicholas Burns
TV Review: The Serpent Queen (Series 1)
Samantha Morton and Liv Hill are huge amounts of fun as Catherine de’ Medici in the raucous…
Film Review: Allelujah (2022)
Alan Bennett’s 2018 play Allelujah gets a lavishly cast film adaptation but it’s still a headscratcher of…
12 Days of Lesley Manville – 8: Harlots (Series 3)
Largely (and unfairly) overlooked, the third and final season of Harlots brings the series to a fitting…
Film Review: Hope Gap (2019)
Hope Gap sees Annette Bening and Bill Nighy star in this chilly depiction of divorce by the…
TV Review: Small Axe
Steve McQueen’s anthology flm series Small Axe is an absolute triumph as it depicts the West Indian…
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…
Lockdown film review: Emma. (2020)
Autumn de Wilder offers an Emma. with a contemporary sensibility but not much sense “Mother, you MUST…
Blogged: shaking up Shakespeare
I have a mixed time with some shaken-up Shakespeares – othellomacbeth at the Lyric Hammersmith; Twelfth Night at…
Casting news aplenty!
I round up some of the recent casting news, including Queen Margaret at the Royal Exchange, Wasted…
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