Poetry review – FOXGLOVEWISE: Colin Pink admires the technical expertise behind Ange Mlinko’s imaginative and evocative poems
year 2025
Kubrick An Odyssey. Review by Alan Price. Throughout late 1980’s and all of the 1990’s the question that moviegoers often asked was what’s Kubrick up to now? We were aware that Stanley Kubrick took a long time creating a film because of his fastidious micro-managing of every aspect of filmmaking.
Poetry review – LANDSCAPES OF THE EXILED: Charles Rammelkamp commends Alan Catlin’s bleak poems as highly appropriate for the current troubled times
Tempest Project. Review by Barbara Lewis. On March 21, Peter Brook would have been a hundred. To celebrate the birthday his beloved Bouffes du Nord Theatre in Paris is staging his and Shakespeare’s final project.
Poetry review – MISSING PERSON: Vanessa Lampert admires both the perceptiveness and the kindness of Nicholas Hogg’s observations
Punch, Young Vic. Review by Will Staveley. Based on the memoir Right From Wrong by Jacob Dunne, the play tells the book’s story; of how its writer inadvertently kills a trainee paramedic, James Hodgkinson, with a single punch on a night out in Nottingham. It is as uncompromising a work as it sounds, and one which left good amounts of the audience in tears, shock, or a combination of the two.
Impressionist Paris. Review by Barbara Lewis. Impressionist Paris, A Panoramic View of Paris in French Impressionism. Published by Hannibal Books to coincide with the exhibition New Paris: From Monet to Morisot at the Kunstmuseum in the Hague until June 9
Poetry review – THE MAGIC THEATRE: Tim Murphy follows James Harpur through poetic reminiscences of student life
Poetry review – DAUGHTER OF THE SUN: Alex Josephy reviews Rachel Spence’s imaginative exploration of a mother-daughter relationship
Yojimbo – 1961 / Sanjuro 1962 – (Kurosawa). Review by Alan Price. The BFI continue their new 4k Kurosawa restorations with two of his most famous samurai films Yojimbo and Sanjuro. Both feature superb performances by Toshiro Mifune as a ronin (a vagrant samurai drifter).
Cry-Baby, The Musical. Review by Barbara Lewis. “Cry-Baby” may be set in 1950s Baltimore, but lyrics that at once celebrate and satirise the democratic checks and balances of the “nifty country” that is the United States of America make it tailor-made as a tonic for our times.
Poetry review – THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF OPHELIA: Charles Rammelkamp manages to keep up with Robert Cooperman’s extensive re-working of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
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