13 January 2014 London It’s harrowing to be sure, but Steve McQueen’s film 12 Years A Slave is a magnificent…
Old Friends, Bookends
2 January 2014 London A re-read of Peter Carey’s marvellous historical love story Oscar & Lucinda sends me down on…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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