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Performance & Film / 03 Mar 2013

Review: I Was A Rat!

Despite its breakneck pace there’s plenty to enjoy in this new adaptation of Philip Pullman’s dark, modern fairytale

Performance & Film / 03 Mar 2013

Review: Papertown by YEP at Camp And Furnace

An odd set-up and committed performances from Liverpool’s next generation of theatre creatives make for something refreshingly different from the YEP.

/ 03 Mar 2013

Review: Stoker

Channelling the spirit of Hammer House and Tales of the Unexpected, famed Oldboy director Chan-wook Park applies his own disorienting vision to his first English language film, the horror thriller Stoker. Prison Break actor Wentworth….

Performance & Film / 03 Mar 2013

Review: Cloud Atlas

Cloud Atlas clumsily manhandles the literary head scratcher, resulting in an overlong and disappointingly disjointed film.

Performance & Film / 02 Feb 2013 / 3 comments

Review: The Phantom of the Opera

The West End juggernaut comes to town - and even two disappearing Phantoms couldn’t mask the quality of this new production.

Performance & Film / 02 Feb 2013

Review: Four Candles

When is a comedy night not a comedy night? By putting comics at the centre, Four Candles is a very different night’s entertainment from the usual raucous shows.

Performance & Film / 02 Feb 2013

Review: The Misanthrope

Can you have too much of a Moliere thing? In their third foray into 17th century comedies, Roger McGough and Gemma Bodinetz revive a comedy of manners, mischief and high society…

Performance & Film / 02 Feb 2013 / 1 comment

Review: The Rocky Horror Show, Liverpool Empire

Often naughty, frequently nice and occasionally - when Rhydian’s on stage - terrifying. The Rocky Horror Show is still packing them in and as purely, daftly enjoyable as ever.

Performance & Film / 02 Feb 2013

Review: Hyde Park on Hudson

One of America’s greatest Presidents gets the biopic treatment in this ambiguous take on Roosevelt starring Bill Murray.

Performance & Film / 02 Feb 2013

Review: Oliver Reed: Wild Thing

An energetic monologue paints an affectionate portrait of Brtish acting’s last great piss artist.

Performance & Film / 02 Feb 2013

Review: John Shuttleworth - Out Of Our Sheds

The John Shuttleworth show doesn’t cover any ground - but that’s kind of the point.

Performance & Film / 02 Feb 2013 / 2 comments

Review: Zero Dark Thirty

Following recent movies Argo and Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty is the latest in a role call of propaganda pics to hit the big screen. Zero Dark Thirty is the military term for 30 minutes after midnight in….

Performance & Film / 01 Jan 2013

Review: Bravo Figaro!

A very different kind of show from Mark Thomas is a beautiful piece of work that doesn’t patronise his father’s illness, not ignore his frailties, as they connect over a love of opera.