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Robert Tanitch reviews Paradise at the National Theatre (Olivier Theatre)

2,500 years on, Ian Rickson directs an all-female cast in Kae Tempest’s Paradise, a contemporary morality play, an adaptation of Philoctetes, the play Sophocles wrote during the Peloponnesian War and ...

andrew 1886 views 0 likes Aug 20, 2021

A thrilling true British espionage tale gets Benedict Cumberbatch – and an underwhelming screen adaptation.

Joyce Glasser reviews The Courier (August 13, 2021) Cert 12A, 111 mins. In one of the most enjoyable spy thrillers of all time, Alfred Hitchcock’s, 1938 The Lady Vanishes, Miss Froy, a septuagenarian ...

andrew 1714 views 0 likes Aug 20, 2021

A tragic 1960’s and a comic contemporary love story become entwined, but neither offers anything new.

Joyce Glasser reviews The Last Letter from Your Lover (August 6, 2021) Cert 12A, 109 mins. There’s a whiff of a Nicholas Sparks novel in the unabashed romance that saturates The Last Letter from Your ...

andrew 1556 views 0 likes Aug 19, 2021

This extended Blondie music video is neither a celebration of women or older women.

Joyce Glasser reviews Off the Rails (July 23, 2021) Cert 15, 94 mins Appealing to the greying pound might prove more of a challenge than the grey pound if Off the Rails is anything to go by. In this b ...

andrew 1804 views 0 likes Aug 13, 2021