13 January 2014 London It’s harrowing to be sure, but Steve McQueen’s film 12 Years A Slave is a magnificent … More
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Old Friends, Bookends
2 January 2014 London A re-read of Peter Carey’s marvellous historical love story Oscar & Lucinda sends me down on … More
We Need To Talk About Tom Daley
2 December 2013 London The media response to British sportsman Tom Daley announcing today that he was in a relationship with … More
Little Bird, Big Book
27 November 2013 London Donna Tartt’s first novel in nearly a decade, The Goldfinch, is a breathlessly emotional coming-of-age tale of an … More
Till Death Do Us Part
4 November 2013 London Two plays on the London stage – Joanna Murray-Smith’s Scenes From A Marriage and Alexi Kaye-Campbell’s The Pride – put … More
Suffer the Little Children
20 October 2013 London Two wonderful new films – Daniel Borgman’s The Weight of Elephants and Clio Barnard’s The Selfish … More
Leaving the Doll’s House
18 August 2013 London A wonderful new production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House coincides with my watching Danish TV drama Borgen, … More
The Great Gen-X Love Story
7 July 2013 London In Before Midnight, Richard Linklater brings his trilogy about the travails of globetrotting lovers Jesse and Céline to … More
Not Waving But Drowning
28 June 2013 London Über-cool “immersive theatre” company Punchdrunk return to London with The Drowned Man, channeling 1950s Hollywood with … More
Inside the Sequinned Closet
10 June 2013 London Steven Soderbergh’s fantastic Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra, provides a definitive glimpse of the aesthetics of life … More
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