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By: Helen Crane

  • I Think We Are Alone at Theatre Royal Stratford East review: Kathy Burke’s influence looms large on heartfelt black comedy

    March 6, 2020

    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” It’s a quotation from Scots poet Ian McLaren, now being misattributed to Plato on Instagram feeds everywhere. It’s also the message I Think We Are Alone, the black comedy being toured by physical theatre troupe Frantic Assembly to mark its 25th anniversary, wants to [...]

  • Military Wives review: The Full Monty meets Keep Calm and Carry On in predictable Britcom

    March 6, 2020

    If someone decided to make a film adaptation of the Keep Calm and Carry On poster, it would probably turn out a bit like Military Wives. Directed by The Full Monty’s Peter Cattaneo, it’s a similar tale of good old-fashioned British grit triumphing against the odds – except instead of steelworkers it’s about soldiers’ wives, [...]

  • Property of the Week: A Camden gothic mansion with ties to surrealist artist Nancy Fouts and Ally Pally

    March 6, 2020

    Slip behind Mornington Crescent station in Camden, take the second left, and you’ll find yourself on Oakley Square. Walking alongside the manicured gardens, you’ll pass a row of stucco-fronted Georgian townhouses, identical save for the odd red door. When you get to the end of the block though, there’s a bit of a surprise. With [...]

  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire review: Banishing men makes for a revolutionary period piece

    February 28, 2020

    There’s something strange about Portrait of a Lady on Fire, the enlightenment era French-language romance set on an island off the coast of Brittany, and it took me a while to work out what it was. It’s about three young women: Héloïse, a lonely debutante; Marianne, the bohemian artist hired by Héloïse’s mother to paint [...]

  • Focus on Isle of Dogs: Dog days are over for once-neglected peninsula as new development abounds

    February 28, 2020

    There are two questions that residents of the Isle of Dogs are often asked. First, why is it called the Isle of Dogs? The boring explanation is that it’s a corruption of a more sensible water-related name like the Isle of Ducks. The grim one is that it was so called because of the sheer [...]

  • Push film review: A challenging look at gentrification around the world

    February 21, 2020

    Property developers, look away now. If you’ve never felt the slightest bit icky when buying a £4 cup of coffee in a formerly working-class neighbourhood, you’re probably not going to like Swedish filmmaker Frederik Gertten’s new documentary, Push. It’s all about gentrification, and whether we have the right to live affordably in a major city [...]

  • Interest in Milan is going beyond fashion week, as second home market booms in this chic ‘pocket metropolis’

    February 21, 2020

    This week, the world’s fashionable people descend on Milan as the city hosts the third of the four international fashion weeks. But the global crowd – and UK nationals in particular – are starting to show an interest in Italy’s second city that extends beyond the runway shows. Once known for being dull and industrial [...]

  • Emma film review: Stylish Austen adaptation is lacking in substance

    February 14, 2020

    Not unlike a cabinet reshuffle, Jane Austen’s 1815 novel Emma follows a group of largely unlikeable people being shunted around in different permutations, at the whim of an aristocratic blonde who’s used to getting their own way. In this case it’s in the pursuit of matchmaking, something in which the titular character, 21-year-old provincial heiress [...]

  • The high streets paved with gold: Flat prices are skyrocketing on these London roads

    February 14, 2020

    The Great British High Street has a lost a bit of its lustre in recent years. Handfuls of household-name retailers have hit the rocks, thanks to customers gravitating away from big chains in favour of local independents, as well as being seduced by the ease of online shopping. But while shops are floundering, the market [...]

  • Birds of Prey review: Margot Robbie sparkles in this diamanté-encrusted take on the superhero movie

    February 10, 2020

    Margot Robbie was the saving grace of 2016’s dire Suicide Squad, so it was welcome news that her character Harley Quinn would be thrust into centre stage in DC’s new spandex adventure, Birds of Prey. It’s a diamante-encrusted take on the superhero film, in which Quinn sets out to prove herself as a supervillian in [...]

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