Everything is fine. People can relax. All the stresses of life are cured. Because there’s a new DVD boxset of Lewis out. If you want to feel bruised and psychologically assaulted, as if you’ve just been dragged by the ankles around a museum of torture that uses sandpaper for carpet, then watch Waking the Dead (all nine…
Have you ever wondered what would happen if all the fairy tale characters we have ever heard of were dumped into our world? No? Me neither, but this is the premise for a new show created by the writers of award winning series Lost, so expect LOTS of mysteries and cliffhangers. Each episode follows a different…
Everyone knows the story of Oliver so going to see the musical led not only to high expectations but also led to seeing how Lionel Bart‘s original story would be transformed onto the stage by Cameron Mackintosh. Would it bring anything new and exciting to the narrative? Or would it prove to be another bland…
Game of Thrones maintains the momentum, quality and characterisation that made it such a hit to begin with.
A preview of the newest instalment from the biggest selling game franchise of all time.
Silent Witness is the latest piece of BBC content to receive complaints from the more sensitive members of the British public. According to comments submitted to the broadcaster’s website, they felt the two-part story Redhill veered too close to ‘torture-porn’ for their liking. Of course, the Daily Mail has published a piece describing the situation as a…
Damien Hirst. Merely uttering the words evokes a controversial debate in and out of the art world. Genius? Taking the piss? Mad? Emperor’s-new-clothes-style trickster? All of the above? Whatever you decide, his latest exhibition in London’s Tate Modern has drawn a huge audience (partially thanks to its media coverage) and is undeniably the biggest art…
Josie Rourke begins her stint as artistic director at the Donmar Warehouse with late Restoration comedy from 1706, The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar. The set is simple, yet effective. The stage is lit with hundreds of candles, presenting the notion of a simple life, but not a bad one. As audience members took to their seats, onstage…
Silent Witness has been going for 16 years now which, in this day and age of brutal axing of shows which don’t ‘find their audience’, is a mark of the series’ enduring popularity. Some people can’t stomach it, for a variety of reasons. It’s often unflinchingly gory in its scenes of bloody autopsies and violent…
AMC should be pretty proud of themselves. With a back-catalogue of original programming consisting of Breaking Bad and Mad Men, they are soon becoming the new HBO. The Walking Dead is up there amongst the greats after a stunning second season, and I implore anyone who hasn’t seen it yet to do so as it…
The UK edition of talent show The Voice launched recently, but is it just another rip-off of The X Factor?
I have mixed feelings about James Cameron’s epic 1997 feature Titanic. As I’m sure you are aware, it’s about to be re-released in cinemas in a new version, converted to 3D, so those who found the banal dialogue and crass characterisation too intellectually challenging the first time round can be helped along by pointy things…
Jon Richardson is very much a comedian who you may have heard of, but who is not yet an A-Lister on the level of the Michael McIntyres or the Jimmy Carrs. He is however, responsible for some incredibly dry humour on the shows Eight Out Of Ten Cats and Stand Up For The Week, amongst…
‘I tried to focus on the bits I felt I hadn’t seen in productions before – the play’s examination of dreams, of time, of coincidence and chance’ says Robert Icke, the director of Headlong Theatre’s new production of Shakespeare’s famous but ‘not well-known’ Romeo and Juliet. Icke whisks the audience into the glass and steel…