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Posted in Alan Bennett Film Richard Eyre

Film Review: Allelujah (2022)

Alan Bennett’s 2018 play Allelujah gets a lavishly cast film adaptation but it’s still a headscratcher of…

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TV Review: Dalgliesh (Series 1)

A quality cast and some corking source material can’t save Dalgliesh from dullness “It’s just a line…

Posted in Film Jessica Swale LGBTQ+

Film Review: Summerland (2020)

A fine lead performance from Gemma Arterton anchors the irascible charms and hidden secrets of the rather…

Posted in LGBTQ+ Silent Witness TV

TV Review: Silent Witness Series 22

Series 22 of Silent Witness continues a rich vein of form as it hits 200 episodes of…

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TV Review: The Sister

Not even with Neil Cross writing and Russell Tovey and Bertie Carvel starring can I recommend the…

Posted in David Hare TV

New TV shows for winter

As the clocks go back, the prestige TV shows come out, so I checked out the first…

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News: Tristram Kenton’s stage archive in pictures

Not really news, more a heads-up to this brilliant piece in the Guardian which covers the 30-odd…

Posted in TV Waking the Dead

TV Review: Waking the Dead Series 2

Series 2 of Waking the Dead sees the show settling into a predictable routine perhaps just a…

Posted in TV Unforgotten

TV Review: Unforgotten Series 3

The third series of Chris Lang’s Unforgotten is another corker, and not just because of Nicola Walker,…