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Movie
Couple in a Hole
★★★★★

The premise of Couple in a Hole is a simple if unusual one: the film...

James Ager 4th April 2016
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Movie
Miles Ahead
★★★★★

Miles Ahead is not a traditional biopic, in that it doesn’t chronicle the milestones in...

The editorial unit 4th April 2016
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Movie
1915
★★★★★

Tackling sensitive historical subject matter has to be carried out with a delicate and shrewd touch,...

Mark Beckett 4th April 2016
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Theatre
Triptyque at Sadler’s Wells
★★★★★

After a successful show last summer, the Montreal-based 7 Fingers return to...

Mark Beckett 3rd April 2016
Calculating Kindness at Camden People’s Theatre | Theatre review
Calculating Kindness pays homage to the life of George Price, an American mathematician, scientist, and journalist who formulated an equation revealing the motives behind altruism. His findings suggested that acts of kindness have self-interest at their core, and that self-advancement is the main motivator for performing them. The final objective, Price believed,...

Mersa Auda 3rd April 2016
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Theatre
Americana: In Concert at Theatre Royal Stratford
★★★★★

As is clear from their mission statement, Theatre Royal...

Jonathan Hutchings 2nd April 2016
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Movie
Boulevard
★★★★★

After struggling to find a distributor, the final onscreen appearance by the late great Robin...

Natasha Furlong 1st April 2016
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Music
Kansas Smitty’s launches new cocktail menu and music in Hackney
★★★★★

Hackney bar and live music venue Kansas Smitty’s...

Alexandra Fletcher 1st April 2016
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Theatre
Dave Gorman at the Royal Festival Hall
★★★★★

Dave Gorman does it again with another fantastically funny show that...

Jim Compton-Hall 1st April 2016
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Theatre
The Fifth Column at Southwark Playhouse
★★★★★

Hardly mentioned and scarcely recognised among Ernest Hemingway’s...

Frances Lai 1st April 2016