National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night
On the twelfth night of lockdown the NT gave to me… a screening of Twelfth Night for freeee. Currently available for free on YouTube, Shakespeare’s gender-bending romcom is well-suited to […]
Monthly Archives: April 2020
Circus of Books
Documentarian Rachel Mason investigates her own family to find out more about the gay porn business her heterosexual parents have run for 30 years, while hiding the true nature of […]
The Madness of King George
Who better to guide us through this period of self-isolated baking than Alan Bennett? Adapted from his play with the same star (Nigel Hawthorne) and director (regular collaborator Nicholas Hytner), […]
At Eternity’s Gate
In his final years, Vincent Van Gogh (Willem Dafoe) battles vicious critics of his work and his own inner demons. While Vincent and Loving Vincent are retrospective views of the […]
The Adventures of Tintin
Boy-faced boffin Tintin (Jamie Bell) buys a model boat at a flea market which leads him to drunken sailor Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis) and the promise of buried treasure. Like […]
No Country for Old Men
Did you know there’s an episode of Tom & Jerry where they both commit suicide at the end? I mention this partly because it’s the darkest thing I’ve ever seen […]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
When MacMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is committed to a sleepy psychiatric hospital for evaluation he shakes up their mundane routine from under the watchful eye of Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). Jack […]
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In Berlin a murderer (Peter Lorre) is on the loose, preying on young girls. As the police repeatedly fail to catch him, angry mob bosses and an angry mob take […]
Beverly Hills Cop
Eddie Murphy turned down Ghostbusters to make the movie that would narrowly beat it, as Beverly Hills Cop cleverly comes top of the 1984 box office. This action-comedy about a […]
Conan the Borebarian
When Conan’s tribe is brutally massacred he goes on a quest for vengeance. Again. Having recently sat through Red Sonja we decided to round off the Conan canon with this […]
