Tag: Dominic Cooper

Posted in Theatre West End

Not-a-review: The Libertine, Theatre Royal Haymarket

“You will not like me” There’s probably a German word for a play that opens with a…

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 Alan Bennett Film National Theatre Theatre

Film Review: The Lady in the Van

“You wouldn’t see Harold Pinter pushing vans down the street” It is more than 15 years since…

Posted in Film

Film Review: An Education (2009)

“Silly schoolgirls are always getting seduced by glamorous older men, but what about you two?” Lone Scherfig’s…

Posted in Mark Gatiss TV

DVD Review: Sense and Sensibility (2008)

“I think we all have to find our own ways to be happy” Who else but Andrew…

Posted in Film

Film Review: The Devil’s Double (2011)

“Latif Yahia is dead. He died in Iran. May God have mercy on him. Now I am…

Posted in Alan Ayckbourn Alan Bennett David Hare Digital Eugene O'Neill George Bernard Shaw Harold Pinter Howard Brenton Michael Frayn Musicals National Theatre Noël Coward Peter Shaffer Shakespeare Stephen Sondheim Tennessee Williams Theatre Tom Stoppard Tony Kushner

Review: National Theatre – Fifty Years on Stage

“We’ve got two hours to show the vast range of work the National has done over the…

Posted in Film Mark Gatiss

Film Review: Starter for 10 (2006)

 “Sometimes it’s not about knowing the right answer” Starter for 10 may only have been filmed seven…

Posted in Digital Film Short Films

Short Film Review #15

  The danger of ripping the piss out of something is that you often leave yourself open…