Tag: Pearce Quigley

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TV Review: The Virgin Queen

As Anne-Marie Duff prepares for The Little Foxes, I look back to 2005’s The Virgin Queen “She’s…

Posted in Film Patrick Marber

Film Review: The Critic (2023)

Ian McKellen and Gemma Arterton lead The Critic in style but the end product is rather underwhelming…

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TV Review: Showtrial (Series 2)

Michael Socha, Adeel Akhtar and Nathalie Armin seriously elevate Series 2 of legal drama Showtrial “Why did…

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TV Review: In the Dark

MyAnna Buring leads In the Dark, a middling crime drama from 2017 “Stop asking questions or you…

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TV Review: Cobra, Series 1

Victoria Hamilton is smashingly good in the rather entertainingly silly first series of Sky drama Cobra “We’ve…

Posted in Digital News Shakespeare Theatre

News: Folio 400 website goes live

The First Folio is one of the great wonders of the literary world. Published in 1623, seven…

Posted in Moira Buffini News Phoebe Waller-Bridge Photos Theatre

News: Tristram Kenton’s stage archive in pictures

Not really news, more a heads-up to this brilliant piece in the Guardian which covers the 30-odd…

Posted in Moira Buffini National Theatre Theatre

Not-a-review: Manor, National Theatre

Tonight should have been the press night for Moira Buffini’s Manor, directed by her sister Fiona Buffini…

Posted in Film Mike Leigh

Film Review: Peterloo (2018)

I wanted to like Mike Leigh’s Peterloo, I really did… “You must be famished coming all the…