Tag: James Fleet

Posted in TV Unforgotten

TV Review: Unforgotten Series 3 Episodes 1+2

The third series of Unforgotten starts and once again, Nicola Walker fails to disappoint “Who buries a…

Posted in Barbican Theatre Broadway fosterIANs Hampstead Theatre Hope Theatre Howard Goodall Jack Thorne Lin-Manuel Miranda Lorraine Hansberry Mike Bartlett Musicals National Theatre Sara Bareilles Sarah Kane Theatre Top moments West End

9 of my top moments in a theatre in 2016

The end-of-year lists of favourite plays and performances should be on their way soon, once the food…

Posted in Shakespeare The Hollow Crown TV

TV Review: The Hollow Crown – The Wars of the Roses: 3. Richard III

“The king’s name is a tower of strength” The Hollow Crown reaches its climax with a solid…

Posted in Shakespeare The Hollow Crown TV

TV Review: The Hollow Crown – The Wars of the Roses: 1. Henry VI Part 2

“I was a woeful looker-on” On a night when the real drama was unfolding in Stockholm’s Globen…

Posted in Lorraine Hansberry National Theatre Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2016 Yaël Farber

Review: Les Blancs, National Theatre

“Do you think the rape of a continent dissolves in cigarette smoke?” To think that just a…

Posted in Film Mike Leigh

Film Review: Mr Turner (2014)

“There’s no room for cynicism in the reviewing of art” One might equally say there’s no room…

Posted in Film

Film Review: Sense and Sensibility (1995)

“People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them” Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility has…

Posted in TV

TV Review: Death Comes to Pemberley

“We must stay positive my dear, and hope that he at least died in a duel” The…

Posted in Radio Plays Theatre

Radio Review: Austerlitz, Radio 3

“We talked about how memory deals or doesn’t deal with what is intolerable” WG Sebald’s novel Austerlitz…