Tag: Christopher Fairbank

Posted in Film Lin-Manuel Miranda Musicals

Film Review: The Little Mermaid (2023)

DIsney’s live-action remakes continue apace with The Little Mermaid but for little substantive reward “I’m trying to…

Posted in James Graham TV

TV Review: Sherwood

One of the shows of the year. James Graham’s Sherwood is magisterial, full of stonkingly good acting…

Posted in Silent Witness TV

TV Review: Silent Witness Series 2

Series 2 of Silent Witness sees the show quickly slip into the patterns that bristle against the…

Posted in TV

TV Review: Merlin Series 1

Looking for an inoffensive lockdown series to binge? I decide to revisit Merlin… “You hear the word…

Posted in Alice Birch Film

Film Review: Lady Macbeth (2017)

Who needs Shakespeare when you have William Oldroyd and Alice Birch to give us a chillingly excellent…

Posted in Almeida Theatre Mike Bartlett Theatre Theatre review

Review: Albion, Almeida Theatre

“The fantasy that brings the reality into being”  As Mike Bartlett’s profile grows and grows, one can’t…

Posted in Agatha Christie Radio Plays Theatre

Review: The Memory of Water / And Then There Were None / A Special Kind of Dark, Radio 4

“You’ve got that slight edge in your voice, like a blunt saw” Shelagh Stephenson’s The Memory of…