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A great tearjerker, Puccini’s sweeping rapturous score is irresistible

Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s La Bohème at London Coliseum The good news, and even more so if you were unfortunate enough to have seen Benedict Andrews’s production in 2015, is that ENO has decided to ...

markbendle 133 views 0 likes Nov 29, 2018

As an allegory of mass hysteria, this confused issue-based teen flick misses the mark

Joyce Glasser reviews Assassination Nation (November 23, 2018), Cert. 18, 108 min. Lily Colson (Odessa Young) narrates this so-called black comedy that begins with a chaotic montage and the words, ‘Th ...

markbendle 223 views 0 likes Nov 27, 2018

Books on Oscar Wilde, Vivien Leigh, Writers, Quotes, Film, Restaurants

Robert Tanitch’s Round-up of Books No 4 (2018) Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis (Head of Zeus £25). Oscar Wilde wrote the most famous and wittiest comedy in the English language, The Importance of Bei ...

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Gudnason is a damp squib whose lack of chemistry with Foy’s Lisbeth is unforgivable

Joyce Glasser reviews The Girl in the Spider’s Web (November 23, 2018), Cert. 15, 115 min. On the basis of three psychological thrillers known as The Millennium Series, about a troubled girl nam ...

markbendle 221 views 0 likes Nov 23, 2018