The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Cumberbitches, rejoice! Just as 2012 was The Year of the Fassbender, so Benedict Cumberbatch has…
Browsing: The Culturist
Spymonkey’s Cooped
It was 10.25 on a Wednesday evening in the Leicester Square theatre, when three men…
Seasonal Soirées
Our guide to wonderfully original ways of eating, drinking and making-merry in London this Christmas…
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Franchises are hard. On the good ship Harry Potter, they had to anchor what they…
In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play
“Sex sells – which is presumably why Channel 4 commissioners and London theatre producers are serving up countless salacious offerings for our wanton delectation.”
Strangers on a Train
Laurence Fox and Jack Huston star in this on-stage adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel and Hitchcock’s cinematic masterpiece…Strangers on a Train…
Twelve Angry Men
“Reginald Rose’s 1955 play has been something of a standby in the half-century since it was first performed, going through several different versions and interpretations. “
Philomena
“Ah-ha!” An exclamation that you won’t hear in this film. In Michael Winterbottom’s sublime The…
Mozart Deconstructed: McBurney’s Magic Flute
Larry reviews the ENO’s latest production of The Magic Flute, by actor and theatre director, Simon McBurney…
Mrs Lowry and Son
“I am a man who paints. Nothing more nothing less. I paint what I see. I paint how I feel.” Allana reviews the new stage production…
Gravity
There aren’t many things that are genuinely frightening in the cinema. Horror films? Forget it.…
Rambert Triple Bill at Sadler’s Wells
“Contemporary dance often has to fight a bad rep: too vague, rambling, and often pointless verging on the ridiculous. Rambert usually avoids this…”