Film Review: Cats (2019)
byDespite being the fourth longest running Broadway musical of all time, most people will agree that Cats is up there as one of the…
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Film Review: See You Up There (2017)
byIt’s hard to know what to feel when emerging from See You Up There, the ambitious new film from Albert Dupontel – writer, director,…
Film Review: The Greatest Showman (2017)
by“Ladies and gents, this is the moment you’ve waited for”. And so begins this year’s second lavish musical extravaganza, The Greatest Showman. But have…
Film Review: Beauty and the Beast (2017)
byIt’s finally here. The live Disney musical we’ve all been waiting for. Twenty-six years after the animated original (one of the few animated films…
Review: National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera (2016)
bySuch a display of cynicism has rarely been seen on stage as that in Rufus Norris‘ staging of Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera. Its…
Film Review: The Danish Girl (2015)
bySomething smells like Oscar bait. Or maybe it’s just Tom Hooper. The Danish Girl has more than a whiff of Hooper’s usual winning formula…
Film Review: London Road (2015)
byLondon Road can make the claim that it’s unlike any musical you’ve ever seen before. For starters it’s the first film produced by Britain’s…
Film Review: Great Expectations (2012)
byAs the 19th Century’s most accomplished writer of soap fiction, one of the keys to Charles Dickens’ longevity has been his ability to create a likeable hero. More impressively, he also possessed an uncanny ability to weave almost every aspect of society into a coherent storyline, gentlemen’s clubs, gaolers, average Joes and all.
AFFFF Review: The Man Who Laughs (2012)
byThose who are familiar with Les Miserables will know that Victor Hugo was not the most cheerful of chaps. The Man Who Laughs, one of his less well known works, might sound merry but where pre-revolutionary France is concerned, there is not a great deal to laugh about.
Film Review: Les Misérables (2012)
byIt seems strange to write that actors singing in a musical is revolutionary, but in this case it is. Appropriately, the revolution is made…