UPDATE: SLAVE PLAY, which received a record-breaking 12 Tony nominations, returns to Broadway for 69 performances from November 23rd 2021 at the August Wilson Theatre. Tickets are on sale now. Warning: contains potential spoilers. Jeremy O. Harris’s searingly uncompromising, disarmingly funny and often suitably uncomfortable Slave Play was a recipient of multiple awards as part... Continue Reading →
Jayro Bustamante’s Tremors (Temblores) tells the story of handsome, successful, wealthy Pablo (Juan Pablo Olyslager), who falls in love with Francisco (Mauricio Armas Zebadúa), and the terrible repercussions that this wreaks. Pablo, a member of a religious and socially conservative family of European heritage in Guatemala, is married to Isa, with whom he has two young children.... Continue Reading →
Jonathan Larson’s Tick, Tick, Boom has always been the perfect show for fringe theatre, and this new production by London’s Bridge House Theatre stands tall in the small space. Originally written as a one man show, later expanded to three characters, Tick, Tick, Boom charts the pre-mid-life-crisis of Jon (a struggling musical theatre composer) in... Continue Reading →
Five complete strangers sit down for a meal in an apartment in Paris. Each start the evening in a different emotional space; one is physically sick, others withdrawn, others conversational. Over the course of the evening they talk about love, life, sexual fantasies and discover the ways in which they are the same and the... Continue Reading →
A B-movie science-thriller made with art-house movie aestetics, Little Joe is a weird beast of a film. Emily Beecham stars as Alice, a geneticist working on a designer flower that has the ability to use scent to elevate moods. Alice has a ruthless streak, sabotaging other researcher’s plants to service her own, racing to be... Continue Reading →
The debut film from Australian director Shannon Murphy is an astonishing, funny and poignant coming-of-age tale that may just be my favourite film of the BFI London Film Festival so far, it will be hard to beat! Sharp Objects break-out actress Eliza Scanlen plays Milla, an Australian schoolgirl from a comfortably middle class family, who... Continue Reading →
There is a moment in Xavier Dolan’s Matthias & Maxime, when Pier-Luc Funk’s character Rivette (a close friend of the film’s lead duo) is playing the piano for his mother and her friends at her insistence. As he plays the women get distracted, talking with newcomers, and eventually, they all leave the room. Rivette slams... Continue Reading →
The movie Showgirls is infamous. It’s burnt its way into the pop consciousness in a way that few films do. Now Showgirls-apologist Jeffrey McHale is here with You Don’t Nomi, a documentary that forces you to re-examine the film. Is it a glorious flop, a misunderstood masterpiece or something else entirely? The treatise behind You... Continue Reading →
Handsome handsome Henry Golding stars in this new drama by Hong Khaou (Lilting) about a man returning to his home country and trying to come to terms with his past and all the things he’s lost. But don't think this is Crazy Rich Gaysians, Khaou has something more rewarding in store. Lilting was one of... Continue Reading →
Harriet Tubman - Prophet, Sailor, Soldier, Spy. Director Kasi Lemmons brings us the story of one of America’s greatest abolitionists who, over the course of some 13 missions saved over 70 slaves via the Underground Railroad. Filled with an outstanding cast, lead by Cynthia Erivo and including Janelle Monae, Clarke Peters and Leslie Odom Jr,... Continue Reading →
