Reasons to be Happy
Shakespeare made it easy. If the play ended with a marriage, it was a comedy.…
Browsing: The Culturist
High Rise
Ben Wheatley’s career to date has been fascinating, quickly establishing him as a singular auteur…
Flare Path
Warm and cosy, rather like a Miss Marple without the murder, whilst Terrence Rattigan’s Flare…
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is not a good film. But I did enjoy…
Fauré’s Requiem at Wells Cathedral
Rarely performed at Wells Cathedral, their renowned choir will be singing the sublime choral work,…
The Herbal Bed
The estimable English Touring Theatre normally produce revivals of plays that make for, if nothing…
Film & Fizz at One Aldwych
One Aldwych hotel in Covent Garden has launched a thrilling season of Film & Fizz dinner…
The Painkiller
There is something inherently British about the way we delight in farce. Perhaps it is…
Mad about the Girl: Botticelli Reimagined
“It’s not bad, but it’s better on a postcard.” That’s what Surrealist painter René Magritte…
Welcome Home, Captain Fox
The Donmar’s current production opens in a naval hospital with heavy overtones of an asylum.…
Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art
“Oh! Young artist, you want a subject. Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself.”…
Nell Gwynn
It’s just as well that Nell Gwynn was a real person because she’d be entirely…