Tag: Peter Wight

Posted in Christopher Hampton Film

Film Review: Atonement (2007)

“I suppose we should start by reading it” Atonement was only Joe Wright’s second film but crikey…

Posted in Film Kenneth Branagh

DVD Review: My Week With Marilyn

“I thought you hated all that Royal Court stuff”  I never quite got round to watching My…

Posted in Film

Film Review: Lucky Break (2001)

“When everyone is taking their bows, you and me exit stage left” Lucky Break is the type…

Posted in National Theatre Patrick Marber Theatre

Review: The Red Lion, National Theatre

“I was never so loved, nor loved this life so strong” Patrick Marber’s first new play in…

Posted in Film Mike Leigh

Film Review: Mr Turner (2014)

“There’s no room for cynicism in the reviewing of art” One might equally say there’s no room…

Posted in Digital Film Short Films

Short Film Review #53

      A nightmare audition is nothing new but Jonathan Kydd’s 15 minute Shakespeare’s Wart is…

Posted in Ancient Greeks Frank McGuinness Old Vic Theatre

Review: Electra, Old Vic

“They took his life. They took MY life” There’s something fiercely elemental about Kristin Scott Thomas’ extraordinary…

Posted in TV

DVD Review: Persuasion (2007)

“I will not allow a woman’s nature to be more unconstant than a man’s” This was actually…

Posted in TV

DVD Review: Silk, Series 1

“245 women silks ever, out of tens of thousands” I do love a legal drama and so…