Review: Moonlight
12th March 2017 I can’t really think of the words to begin a review for Moonlight. That’s not some hyperbolic fevered attempt to get you to go see it, more of an admission of defeat on my part when it… Continue Reading
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Review: Tobacco Factory’s Shakespeare Season starts with Othello
21st Feb 2017 For the first time in 8-years Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory (STF Theatre) revisits Othello. And given the current anti-Islamic rhetoric emanating from across the pond its return couldn’t be more appropriately timed. While Donald Trump wages… Continue Reading
Review: Jackie
14th February 2017 Jackie is hard to describe as a “biopic” because despite the title and the initial expectation of the subject matter from the trailers, poster etc. it’s actually far more and less than what you’d think. The single… Continue Reading
Review: Supersonic
11th February 2017 In May 1993, Head of Creation Records Alan McGhee went in search of an old flame at Glasgow’s King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut but instead happened upon a relatively unknown band who were set to define a… Continue Reading
Review: La La Land
27th January 2017 It seems that nowadays the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gets to have at least one film every few years that’s a resounding pat on the back to Hollywood and the beauty of cinema, stardom… Continue Reading
Review: Pink Mist still as brutally honest as ever at Bristol’s Old Vic
25th January 2017 The unrestrained anguish of war will probably never fully be transposed into art, but Pink Mist (based on the poetry of Owen Sheers) gives as articulate and honest a portrayal of the heartbreak of combat as this… Continue Reading
Review: Manchester by the Sea
20th January 2017 Manchester by the Sea was a film that, for the last few months, I was completely apathetic about. I remember it slowly creeping up, how positive reviews turned to great ones to eventually almost universal acclaim. The… Continue Reading
Review: Billy Bragg and Joe Henry – Political Punch and Railroad Romance at St George’s
17th January 2017 During a five day, 2,700 mile train voyage between Chicago and Los Angeles embarked upon by Billy Bragg and Joe Henry in March last year, the two friends of over thirty years recorded Shine A Light, an… Continue Reading