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Film, Theatre & Music Musings.
Monday, 7 July 2025
Theatre Review:
Till the Stars Come Down
(Theatre Royal Haymarket)
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It's great that one of the best productions of last year - Bijan Sheibani's staging of Beth Steel's Till the Stars Come Down -...
Friday, 6 June 2025
Interview with Frederic Raphael (BFI online)
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I interviewed Frederic Raphael for BFI on the occasion of the re-release of Darling . You can read the interview here .
Thursday, 15 May 2025
Piece on Michael Palin in
A Private Function
(BFI online)
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On the occasion of Michael Palin's 82nd birthday I wrote about his performance in one my favourite comedies, A Private Function . You ca...
Review of
It Used to Be Witches
by Ryan Gilbey in
Sight and Sound
(June 2025)
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I reviewed Ryan Gilbey's new book about queer cinema, It Used to Be Witches , in the June issue of Sight and Sound , which is just out n...
Monday, 31 March 2025
10 Great British Films of 1975 (BFI online)
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For BFI online I wrote about 10 British films turning 50 this year. You can read the piece here .
Monday, 10 March 2025
Sight and Sound
(April 2025):
Woman in a Hat
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For the latest issue of Sight and Sound , I wrote about Stanisław Różewicz's Woman in a Hat for the "Lost and Found" column.
Sight and Sound
(March 2025):
Bushman
Review
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For the March 2025 issue of Sight and Sound I reviewed the new Blu-ray release of Bushman by David Schickele.
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