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Marjorie Prime, Menier Chocolate Factory review - superbly acted chiller about a contemporary crisisSaturday, 18 March 2023
Artificial intelligence has become an even hotter topic since Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime was first staged in Los Angeles in 2014, so it’s not surprising that the play’s handling of AI is being seen as its unique selling point. (It subsequently... Read more... |
Album: 100 gecs - 10,000 gecsSaturday, 18 March 2023
If popular music is dead and done and there’s nowhere left to go, rising duo 100 gecs, from St Louis, Missouri, are here to prove there’s still deranged fun to be had cannibalising the corpse. The second album from the pair, both in their late... Read more... |
Play Dead review - chills, thrills and stolen body partsThursday, 16 March 2023
The moral of this story is that if you’re going out to commit a robbery, don’t take your iPhone with you. This was the grave error committed by TJ (Anthony Turpel) and his friend Ross (Chris Lee), whose attempted heist was foiled by an angry shotgun... Read more... |
Turn It Out with Tiler Peck, Sadler's Wells review - America's ballet wonder-woman raises the barreTuesday, 14 March 2023
She can do anything. That’s what choreographers say about Tiler Peck, the peppy New York City Ballet principal who has launched a stream of projects above and beyond the day job. You want speed? Wham, you get it. You want complexity? She can learn a... Read more... |
Champions review - Woody Harrelson's latest hoop dreamTuesday, 14 March 2023
In the sports comedy Champions Marcus and Marokovich (Woody Harrelson) is a basketball coach in the lowly G League. He has ambitions to coach in the major leagues, but a sight of his highly flammable temper is normally enough to conclude that... Read more... |
Blu-ray: Miami BluesSunday, 12 March 2023
Junior (Alec Baldwin) peers through his airplane window at fluffy clouds with childish wonder, then a wolfish grin of opportunity. He turns to practising the signature from his latest mark’s stolen wallet, with Miami below for the taking.These... Read more... |
Blu-ray: The Breakfast ClubTuesday, 07 March 2023
John Hughes’ most beloved cult film feels like contraband now, a bracingly harsh bulletin from Eighties teen life, full of barbed, uncensored talk between its five school detention misfits – the titular “breakfast club”.It’s nothing like Hughes’... Read more... |
Daisy Jones & The 6, Amazon Prime review - hit rock'n'roll novel doesn't make great TVMonday, 06 March 2023
Based on the bestselling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six is the rags-to-riches-to-wreckage story of the titular Seventies rock band, supposedly somewhat based on Fleetwood Mac. Their journey from their fashion-defying... Read more... |
I'm Fine (Thanks for Asking) review - quietly impressive debut filmSaturday, 04 March 2023
I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking) is an object lesson in how it was possible to make a feature on a tiny budget despite the restrictions of the pandemic lockdown. The film-makers stuck to the classical unities (time, place, action), cast themselves... Read more... |
The Son review - is each unhappy family unhappy in its own way?Wednesday, 15 February 2023
The Son is one of those movies where everyone is acting their socks off, exhibiting their range and sensitivity to the point where one can imagine there was a bucket on the set positioned to drop in the expected awards. It may well work for... Read more... |
Action Gesture Paint, Whitechapel Gallery review - a revelation and an inspirationTuesday, 14 February 2023
It’s not often that an exhibition makes me cry, but then it’s not often that a show reveals the degree to which we have been duped. Action Gesture Paint includes the work of some 80 women, half of whom I’d never heard of. Given that I’ve been a... Read more... |
The Lehman Trilogy, Gillian Lynne Theatre review - a modern classic exuberantly revivedFriday, 10 February 2023
The frantic world of finance moves fast, its giddy successes and thundering crashes causing ripples – sometimes tsunami waves – that affect us all. When director Sam Mendes and adaptor Ben Power first brought the story of the Lehman family... Read more... |
