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An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn

Just when you thought life couldn’t get any stranger, along comes Jim Hosking with a curveball like An Evening…

By Daniel Amir
Film festivals

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Another of the main themes running through Sundance London this year is young queer cinema. The Miseducation of Cameron…

By Daniel Amir
Film festivals

First Reformed

Paul Schrader’s latest film takes after others in his screenwriting repertoire – including Taxi Driver and Raging Bull – in being…

By Daniel Amir
Film festivals

The Tale

Memories inhabit people. They grow and transform, or remain frozen in an imprint of a past self. They…

By Daniel Amir
Musical

The Rink at Southwark Playhouse

In a whirlwind of hilarious banter and exhilarating roller skate dance numbers, The Rink debuts in London for the first time in…

By Kari Megeed
Movie

Book Club

It is perhaps a fair assessment that any film which makes Fifty Shades of Grey its cornerstone is at best setting…

By Ed Edwards
Play

Blueberry Toast at Soho Theatre

All is not as it seems in suburbia in Mary Laws’ intriguing and unusual play Blueberry Toast, directed by Steve Marmion.…

By Catherine Sedgwick
Film festivals

Hereditary

Hereditary lures you in slowly. For the first 30 minutes or so, you might think you have walked into…

By Daniel Amir