Tag: Tim McMullan

Posted in Mark Gatiss TV

DVD Review: Sense and Sensibility (2008)

“I think we all have to find our own ways to be happy” Who else but Andrew…

Posted in Film Tom Stoppard

Film Review: Shakespeare in Love (1998)

“Theatre is the handmaiden of the devil” With a theatrical version of Shakespeare in Love about to…

Posted in Brian Friel Donmar Warehouse Ivan Turgenev Theatre

Review: Fathers and Sons, Donmar Warehouse

“I share no-one’s ideas, I have my own” Another day, another tale of people languishing in the…

Posted in TV

DVD Review: Silk, Series 2

“People are saying you only made silk because you’re a woman and from Bolton” The joys of…

Posted in Alan Ayckbourn Alan Bennett David Hare Digital Eugene O'Neill George Bernard Shaw Harold Pinter Howard Brenton Michael Frayn Musicals National Theatre Noël Coward Peter Shaffer Shakespeare Stephen Sondheim Tennessee Williams Theatre Tom Stoppard Tony Kushner

Review: National Theatre – Fifty Years on Stage

“We’ve got two hours to show the vast range of work the National has done over the…

Posted in Film

DVD Review: The Woman in Black

“So many…so many children” For his first major post-Harry Potter film outing, Daniel Radcliffe went for this…

Posted in Richard Eyre Shakespeare The Hollow Crown Theatre TV

TV Review: The Hollow Crown, Henry IV Part II

“I’ll tickle your catastrophe” I was mildly disappointed by the second instalment of The Hollow Crown, Henry…

Posted in Film Peter Morgan

DVD Review: The Queen

“Duty first, self second” I hadn’t watched the film of The Queen since seeing it at the…

Posted in Barbican Theatre Theatre

Review: The Master and Margarita, Complicite at the Barbican

“It’s just words, it’s just another story” As I left the Barbican after seeing Complicite’s take on…