A look back to last year’s Oscars: Oppenheimer and Poor Things won big March 1, 2025 Ryan Gosling was the Oscars biggest talking point for his stellar performance of Barbie song “I’m Just Ken”
Otherland at the Almeida review: Saccharine and melodramatic February 25, 2025 Otherland | Almeida | ★★☆☆☆ Chris Bush’s best-known play to date, Standing at the Sky’s Edge, divided opinion at City AM. I found this strange musical about a Sheffield housing estate to be quite charming, if a little twee, while my colleague, reviewing the West End transfer, hated it with every fibre of her being. [...]
Much Ado About Nothing: Tom Hiddleston stars in glitterbomb show February 20, 2025 Much Ado About Nothing | Theatre Royal Drury Lane | ★★★★★ Jamie Lloyd’s production of Much Ado About Nothing is a blockbuster of such proportions the entire street outside the Theatre Royal Drury Lane was closed so fans could gather en masse to catch a glimpse of Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell. The festival vibe [...]
Three Sisters at The Globe: Tragedy reimagined as farce February 13, 2025 The bijou, candlelit stage at The Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse gives the feel of a doll’s house to this production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters. Dressed in puffy, floaty period costume and framed against exquisite wood panelling, the actors seem like they’ve been picked up and placed on the stage to read their lines rather [...]
Love Hurts review: February 13, 2025 Love Hurts | ★★☆☆☆ | Dir. Jonathan Eusebio Ke Huy Quan completed an astounding career comeback with 2023’s Everything Everywhere All At Once, winning an Oscar for his part in the surreal action hit. Other than a support role in Marvel’s Loki series, things have been relatively quiet since then. Love Hurts is Quan’s first lead [...]
Memoir of a Snail is a heartbreaking tale of mollusc life February 12, 2025 Nominated for Best Animated Feature at this year’s Oscars, independent Australian film Memoir of a Snail finds a surprising amount of optimism in the darkest aspects of life. Succession’s Sarah Snook voices Grace, a lonely orphan who endures a great deal of loss and rejection in her life. Separated from her twin brother Gilbert when [...]
Mad About The Boy: Bridget Jones returns with more of the same February 12, 2025 While she may be heralded as an icon of the late 90s, it appears every decade has needed Bridget Jones. The success of Helen Fielding’s novels led to a big screen adaptation and sequel in the 2000s, before 2016 saw star Renee Zellweger return in Bridget Jones’ Baby. Now, nearly 25 years on from the [...]
Dear England: Gareth Southgate to write book on leadership February 12, 2025 Former England manager Gareth Southgate will publish a book, Dear England: Lessons on Leadership, later this year. It will draw on “the defining moments that shaped his leadership style, principles that defined his decisions, and the resilience that enabled him to perform under the most intense public scrutiny,” said publishers Century, part of Penguin Random [...]
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig review: Oscar nom is a harrowing hit February 7, 2025 The Seed Of The Sacred Fig | Dir. Mohammad Rasoulof | ★★★★☆ Nominated for Best Film Not in the English Language at the forthcoming Oscars, The Seed Of Sacred Fig’s behind the scenes story is almost as compelling as its on screen plot. Director Mohammad Rasoulof filmed entirely in secret, and upon the film’s premiere [...]
Elektra starring Brie Larson is a strange, boring play February 7, 2025 Elektra at the Duke of York’s Theatre | ★★☆☆☆ After two and a half millennia, Sophocles can still pull in a crowd. This week saw the opening of Oedipus at the Old Vic, in which professional Creepy Lil’ Guy Rami Malek drawled his way through a thrilling evening of EDM and interpretive dance. In recent [...]