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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

Robert Tanitch reviews Medea at National Theatre/Olivier Theatre, London Let’s face it, Medea is never going to win the Mother of the Year Award. Carrie Cracknell’s modern dress production, in a versi ...
Divine excess

Divine excess

Anyone over 60 might remember the American character actor and singer Divine for his outrageous, satirical drag-queen roles in John Waters’ films Mondo Trasho (1969) Pink Flamingos (1972), Female Trou ...
Riding high in How To Train Your Dragon 2

Riding high in How To Train Your Dragon 2

Back in 2010 I described How to Train Your Dragon as ‘a splendid family movie that will bring out the 9-year-old boy in you, even if you were never a boy and are a long way from 9-years-old.’ His scra ...
Giving sacrilige a new meaning

Giving sacrilige a new meaning

Goltzius and the Pelican Company might be only the second (after 2007’s Nighwatching) of Peter Greenaway’s Dutch Master Trilogy, but it could be the end of the good will many of us extend to the maver ...