Tag: Sir Derek Jacobi

Posted in Penelope Skinner TV

TV Review: The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies

Conman thriller The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies is a curiously watchable thing…

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…

Posted in TV

TV Review: Les Misérables

An all-star cast is impressive in Andrew Davies’ TV adaptation of Les Misérables sans la musique “That…

Posted in Film

Film Review: Stratton (2017)

A would-be Bond clone, Stratton ends up more sub-standard Spooks episode than super-spy thriller “What is this…

Posted in Film

Film Review: Say Your Prayers (2020)

Entirely bonkers but highly enjoyable, Say Your Prayers is lots of fun indeed with Harry Melling, Tom…

Posted in Film

Film Review: Effie Gray (2014)

An entertaining cast make the curious Effie Gray more engaging than it might otherwise have been “Marriage,…

Posted in Digital Henrik Ibsen Ivo van Hove National Theatre News Shakespeare Theatre Yaël Farber

News: One year of National Theatre at Home – New titles added

Ahead of National Theatre at Home’s one year anniversary on 1 December, the National Theatre has today announced the…

Posted in James Graham Musicals

Get a vaccine and get the ‘Rhythm of Life’

Ours is not to reason why but Josie Rourke has made a star-studded video, written by herself…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber David Hein Digital Irene Sankoff Lin-Manuel Miranda Lucy Moss Music Musicals Pasek + Paul Robert Lopez Stephen Schwartz Stiles + Drewe Theatre Theatre review Toby Marlow West End

Review: The Show Must Go On, Palace Theatre/online

Featuring 18 West End musicals, The Show Must Go On is a concert to remember, featuring a…