Berlinale
Apatride (Stateless)
Expectations and one’s sensibilities can greatly impact the way one experiences a movie. This will likely be the…
By Lindsay Bellingerreview
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Berlinale
Eva
At this stage of repeatedly demonstrating her brilliance, it would be more of a novelty to get a…
By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale
The Happy Prince
A couple of decades ago, Rupert Everett came to international attention by playing Julia Roberts’s sassy gay friend…
By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale
Dovlatov
In 1970s Leningrad, Sergei Dovlatov endured censorship and persecution in Soviet Russia, only to become one of the…
By Sean Gallen
Berlinale
Minatomachi (Inland Sea)
Fishing is one of those careers that has been passed down from generation to generation. Japan always seems…
By Lindsay Bellinger
Play
Angry at Southwark Playhouse
She is boiling. Her facial expressions are threatening him. Us. The man brandishes his fingers as if they…
By Ella Navarro
Play
The Tempest at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre
Is Prospero a man or woman? Is he Miranda’s father or mother? Controlled Chaos' production brings the latest…
By Ella Navarro
Play
The B*easts at Bush Theatre
In our culture breasts are a battleground, the ultimate object of sexualisation and shame, the primary site where…
By Connor Campbell
Musical
Party Skills for the End of the World at Shoreditch Town Hall
BBC film critic Mark Kermode has a helpful maxim for assessing comedies: the amount of fun reported by…
By Jonathan Mahon-Heap
Berlinale
Black 47
The Irish potato famine (1845-1852) destroyed the primary crop of the country at a time when Catholic Irish…
By Sean Gallen