The Sun does not rise
Robert Tanitch reviews Sun at Sadler’s Wells, London EC1 Those who saw Hofesh Schecter’s amazing Political Mother, a marriage of dance and rock concert at Sadler’s Wells in 2011, are going to be bitt ...
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Judi Dench, as always, is wonderful
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDS PHILOMENA (Fox). A well-known journalist helps an old Irish lady to track down her illegitimate son who had been sold for £1,000 fifty years previously by the nu ...
A long adaptation of Nick Hornby’s A Long Way Down
Whatever the merits of Nick Hornby´s novel A Long Way Down, they fail to translate to writer Jack Thorne’s (The Scouting Book for Boys’) film adaptation that misfires on every count. From the first s ...
Finding peace in Salvo
Salvo is a stylishly told film about redemption in which an assassin for the Sicilian mafia (Saleh Bakri) spares the life of his victim’s blind sister, Rita (Sara Serraiocco). The hitman pays the pri ...