5/5 Stars What is it with Brits and talking about the weather? More importantly, what is it with Brits and not talking about what they really want to talk about? This is the dual question […]
Film | 2014 Academy Award Predictions
Image: Lupita Nyong’o, Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave, Regency Enterprises It’s that time of year again. On Sunday 2nd March the red carpet will be rolled out and the stars […]
Film | American Hustle – Great performances, great hair
Image: Atlas Entertainment 4/5 Stars While reading Peter Bradshaw’s review of American Hustle in the Guardian, I noticed that the critic made a mistake when he said that there’s no British equivalent of this film. […]
Film | Frozen – Disney's seasonal treat will thaw even the coldest of hearts
video: Walt Disney Studios It took Disney years to find a family-friendly way into Hans Christian Andersen’s bleak fairytale ‘The Snow Queen’, in which a young girl must rescue her beloved from a witch who […]
Film | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Slaying the competition
photo: Lionsgate Entertainment 4/5 Stars It says an awful lot when a film franchise can peddle exactly the same story twice and somehow render it better the second time around. Admittedly The Hunger Games: Catching […]
Film | Fifty shades of blue – Two views on Blue is the Warmest Colour
photo: Quat’sous Films 3/5 Stars For the first time ever this year, the Palme d’Or was awarded to the two leads of Blue is the Warmest Colour as well as the director, who is usually […]
Film | Thor: The Dark World – The debate
photo: Marvel Entertainment The Good 4/5 Stars Many turn their noses up at the superhero genre, believing it to be unintelligent and frivolous. Sure, Thor: The Dark World’s storyline is nonsense, but Marvel prove once […]
Mark Kermode at the Hyde Park Picture House
photo: thedoublenegative I was interested to see on your wittertainment Facebook page that you think we should go to see Gravity in 3D. So what I wanted to know is… what’s changed?” Cue tremendous amounts […]
Theatre | 4.48 Psychosis at The Workshop Theatre – a visceral insight into depression
Knowing that 4.48 Psychosis was the last play dramatist Sarah Kane wrote before committing suicide in 1999 makes watching this experimental take on clinical depression even more profound. The script dictates no specific characters, and […]
Books: Book of the Film: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
There are many ways to look at Life of Pi. The novel can be read as a magical realist fable, as a high concept adventure story, or as an allegory about faith, nature and […]
Books: Book of the Film: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Dostoevsky called it “flawless as a work of art”, William Faulkner declared it the best novel ever written, and it has been referenced everywhere in the succeeding literary canon from Chekov to Lemony Snicket. But […]