Tommy
Written by The Who and director Ken Russell, Tommy is a 1975 rock opera (meaning the whole this is sung, or rather yelled) about a deaf, dumb and blind pinball champion […]
Written by The Who and director Ken Russell, Tommy is a 1975 rock opera (meaning the whole this is sung, or rather yelled) about a deaf, dumb and blind pinball champion […]
Not to be confused with My Name is Albert Ayler or He Named Me Malala, I Called Him Morgan is a 2016 documentary about jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen. […]
Set in East Berlin in 1989, Goodbye Lenin! is the story of woman (Katrin Sass) who wakes up from eight months in a coma, having completely missed the fall of […]
This is not a prequel to Slaughterhouse-Five but the first film from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s production company Stolen Picture. A horror-comedy set at an If….-inspired boarding school, Slaughterhouse Rulez is iffy in […]
In this edition of the Barbican’s Half Six Fix series, the London Symphony Orchestra play two iconic and highly influential pieces from the 1890s, Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra and […]
John Carpenter’s 1988 sci-fi follows drifter John Nada (Roddy Piper) who, like Bono before him, finds a pair of sunglasses that makes him see everything in black and white. Continuing […]
Liberal icon the Grinch (Benedict Cumberbatch) valiantly continues the war on Christmas by taking on Whoville, the Christmassiest town south of Lapland, home to the obsessively festive Whos. Their insufferable […]
That’s ENO as in the English National Opera, as opposed to Brian Eno, which would be more like Proggy and Bess. From the majestic opening number, it’s immediately clear why The […]
The follow-up to Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman takes a turn for the macabre, as lead villain The Penguin (Danny DeVito), a deformed creature raised in the sewer, runs for mayor in Gotham, […]
Widows follows a group of women whose criminal husbands are killed in a police shootout after a heist. As their deceased spouses ill-gotten financial gains are reclaimed they are left […]