Slaughterhouse Rulez
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 […]
LSO: Also Sprach Zarathustra and Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
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 […]
They Live
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 […]
The Grinch
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 […]
ENO: Porgy and Bess
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 […]
Batman Returns
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
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 […]
Peterloo
Mike Leigh’s new film documents the Peterloo Massacre of 1819, when cavalry charged a large crowd of protesters in Manchester, who had gathered to demand suffrage and watch Rory Kinnear […]
Good Grief, Charlie Brown!
Fans of Charlie Brown and the Cha Cha Slide will enjoy this new Peanuts exhibition at Somerset House (on until 3 March 2019), celebrating the Charles Schulz cartoons that have had us […]
Being There
Peter Sellers plays Chance, a dim-witted, TV obsessed man who doesn’t read, yet somehow finds his way to the heart of American politics. But unlike Donald Trump he is also […]
