Thomas Messner

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  Cannes

  Goodbye, Cruel World

  ★★★★★

  It’s an eerily familiar spectacle. A reserved, dark-haired...

  Thomas Messner 25th May 2026
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  Movie

  Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War

  ★★★★★

  Though it may be small comfort, when it comes to onscreen catharsis in...

  Thomas Messner 20th May 2026
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  Movie

  The Balloonists

  ★★★★★

  Launching on March 1st 1999, the explorers Bertand Piccard and Brian Jones were launched on...

  Thomas Messner 18th May 2026
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  Movie

  Obsession

  ★★★★★

  Who is Nikki Freeman? It’s a question that bears asking, if only because her screentime...

  Thomas Messner 15th May 2026
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  Theatre

  Sherlock Holmes at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

  ★★★★★

  There he is, the arrogant old sod. He’s brawling just...

  Thomas Messner 14th May 2026
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  Movie

  The Christophers

  ★★★★★

  When Steven Soderbergh returned from a brief (and busy) retirement, no time was wasted in...

  Thomas Messner 11th May 2026
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  Theatre

  A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe

  ★★★★★

  Sometimes, the best way to create a warm, communal...

  Thomas Messner 1st May 2026
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  Movie

  Mother Mary

  ★★★★★

  That artists of any kind will, at some point, slam into a creative wall is...

  Thomas Messner 24th April 2026
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  Movie

  The Wizard of the Kremlin

  ★★★★★

  When dramatising recent history, what factors differentiate dry fact from galvanising...

  Thomas Messner 16th April 2026
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  Movie

  Kiss of the Spider Woman

  ★★★★★

  Two men share a cramped Buenos Aires cell at the height of Argentina’s military...

  Thomas Messner 15th April 2026