Beautiful Loser

26 January 2014 London Inside Llewyn Davis, a gorgeously bittersweet love letter to early 1960s folk and a meditation on … More

Unsweet Home Oklahoma

Friday 24 January 2014 London August: Osage County, Tracy Letts’ celebrated play about family discord on the Oklahoma plains, makes it … More

12 Years A Slave: Movie of the Year

13 January 2014 London It’s harrowing to be sure, but Steve McQueen’s film 12 Years A Slave is a magnificent … 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

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

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

It’s Been So Long, Marianne

7 June 2013 London The return of the great British actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste in a fine revival of James Baldwin’s play … More

A Little Party Never Killed Nobody

6 June 2013 London Ozzie ringmaster Baz Lurhmann’s bombastic film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby explodes off … More

Parsifal-icious

17 March 2013 London A screening of the Met Opera’s wonderful production of Parsifal leaves me pondering whether too much … More

A Trip Down Amnesia Lane

26 January 2013 London Stephen Sondheim’s musical Merrily We Roll Along and an encore screening of Trainspotting remind me of the irresistible … More