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Terence Davies powerful, witty and ambitious, if unfocused biopic of Siegfried Sassoon.

Joyce Glasser reviews Benediction (May 20, 2022) Cert 12A, 137 mins. The Kent-born poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon is commemorated with other “Great War poets” in Westminster Abbey’s ...

andrew 274 views 0 likes May 25, 2022

Clio Bernard’s crowd-pleasing multicultural love story fails to convince.

Joyce Glasser reviews Ali & Ava (March 1, 2022) Cert 15, 94 mins. Bradford writer-director Clio Barnard’s multicultural love story is set in Bradford where Bernard set her exciting, experimental f ...

andrew 389 views 0 likes Mar 4, 2022

Robert Tanitch reviews Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus at Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre, London

Alan Bennett’s comedy, which premiered in 1973 with Alec Guinness in the lead role, is described as “a filthy farce for a less enlightened age” and it is quite unlike anything else he has written. The ...

andrew 844 views 0 likes Dec 16, 2021

WATCH FILMS AT HOME: Robert Tanitch reviews 4 films

CHARLATAN (AXI Films). Agnieszka Holland directs this interesting bio-pic. Jan Mikolasek, Czech herbalist and faith healer, saved many lives. He had no medical qualifications. But give him a bottle of ...

andrew 578 views 0 likes Aug 3, 2021