Tag: Sarah Crowden

Posted in Film

Film Review: Cruella (2021)

Emma Stone and Emma Thompson have lots of fun in the entertaining Cruella, which is only just…

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…

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 Mark Gatiss TV

TV Review: Wolf Hall

“By the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus” Peter Straughan’s adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall and…

Posted in Theatre Young Vic

Review: The Trial, Young Vic

“Innocent men like you are found guilty all the time” The joy of my own blog (even…

Posted in Film

Film Review: Jupiter Ascending / Seventh Son, or ‘What you had to do to win an Oscar in 2014’

“What in the hell is going on?”  It could just be a matter of coincidence but it does…

Posted in Film

Film Review: Quartet (2012)

“I do hate getting older, I hate every bloody moment of it”  Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut on…

Posted in LGBTQ+ TV Wilton's Music Hall

TV Review: Tipping the Velvet

“You seem so very gay and bold” I didn’t watch this 2002 television adaptation of Sarah Waters’…

Posted in Stephen Beresford TV

DVD Review: He Knew He Was Right

“What could be more innocent than visiting the vicar of Cockchaffington?” So having completely tumbled for the…