andrew, Author at Mature Times

It’s not Eastwood, but his young co-star who disappoints in this pleasing, but minor neo-Western.

Joyce Glasser reviews Cry Macho (November 12, 2021) Cert 12, 104 mins. Starting with Gran Torino in 2008 when Clint Eastwood was a young seventy-eight, rumours were spreading that this was Eastwood’s ...

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ENSEMBLE 360 DONCASTER CAST NOVEMBER 13th 2021

“This is a strange programme,” said pianist Tim, “I like it.” Well, when a magnificent oboe sonata is in the mix with an intriguing violin sonata and a glorious cello sonata, a ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews Al Smith’s Rare Earth Mettle at Royal Court Theatre, London

Al Smith’s comedy is about many things: mental health, climate change, big business and the ownership of land, the pollution of the environment and the damage inflicted by powerful technical industrie ...

andrew 308 views 0 likes Nov 18, 2021

A clever, visually impressive, star-studded but indigestible smorgasbord

Joyce Glasser reviews The French Dispatch (October 10, 2021) Cert 15, 108 mins. From the sound of it, you would have to be a bitter Brexiteer or a morose philistine not to love Wes Anderson’s new film ...

andrew 277 views 0 likes Nov 17, 2021