28th March 2022 Jacques (The Beat That My Heart Skipped, A Prophet, Rust and Bone, Dheepan) Audiard’s latest offering is somewhat of a departure from his usual gritty examinations of crime and marginalized figures from urban French society.… Continue Reading
“What are the chances we can get a boat tomorrow?” Matthew E White asks the crowd in The Fleece. “We’ve got a day off in Bristol. Does anyone here have a boat?” A dinghy is offered.… Continue Reading
2nd March 2022 Written in far-off 1981 in the early throes of Thatcherism, ‘Decadence’ is Steven Berkoff’s (British theatre’s senex terrible, darlings) savage takedown of British class attitudes and 1980s excess. Given that the yuppie phenomenon and associated materialistic,… Continue Reading