Tag: Sir Derek Jacobi

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TV Review: Last Tango in Halifax Series 4

“You’re not going down South?” It’s hard not to be a little disappointed with the fact that…

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TV Review: Last Tango In Halifax Series 3

“You can’t put a price on avoiding deep vein thrombosis” I sat down to watch the new…

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2017 What’s On Stage Award nominations

Best Actor in a Play, sponsored by Radisson Blu Edwardian Ian Hallard for The Boys in the Band…

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Album Reviews: Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid and Michael Ball and Alfie Boe

“Shall we dance?‘I thought you’d never ask!’” Though Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid and Michael Ball and…

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Review: Romeo and Juliet, Garrick Theatre

“More inconstant than the wind…”   KenBran’s residency at the Garrick continues with an all-star Romeo and Juliet,…

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Film Review: Henry V (1989)

”Customs curtsy to great kings” It is instructive to watch performances from Kenneth Branagh such as these,…

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Film Review: Hamlet (1996)

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Posted in Film Kenneth Branagh

DVD Review: My Week With Marilyn

“I thought you hated all that Royal Court stuff”  I never quite got round to watching My…

Posted in Film Kenneth Branagh

Film Review: Cinderella (2015)

“Perhaps the greatest risk any of us will ever take is to be seen as we really…