Tag: Oliver Ford Davies

Posted in Film

Film review: the Johnny English trilogy

Johnny English, Johnny English Reborn and Johnny English Strikes Again prove ideal brainless festive watching “I’ve been…

Posted in TV Waking the Dead

TV Review: Waking the Dead Series 6

Series 6 of Waking the Dead, in which the marvellous Tara Fitzgerald arrives and it feels like…

Posted in Howard Brenton Spooks TV

Lockdown TV Review: Spooks Series 2

Now this is more like it, Series 2 of Spooks settles into the classic feel that works…

Posted in Books Kenneth Branagh Photos Theatre

Book review: The Half – Simon Annand

The Half – Photographs of Actors Preparing for the Stage by Simon Annand Just a quickie for…

Posted in Chichester Festival Theatre Not-London Theatre UK

Not-a-review: The Chalk Garden, Chichester Festival Theatre

The Chalk Garden fails to do it for me at Chichester Festival Theatre, despite the presence of…

Posted in Film

Film Review: Sense and Sensibility (1995)

“People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them” Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility has…

Posted in Film

Film Review: The Mother (2003)

“Would you come to the spare room with me?”  It is remarkable that even now, 10 years…

Posted in Barbican Theatre Shakespeare Theatre

Review: Richard II, Barbican

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me” I am aware that I’m flying in the…

Posted in TV

DVD Review: The Way We Live Now

“We’ll be making history gentleman, and money too” I picked up a copy of The Way We…