Carey Mulligan and Ed Oxenbould gamely shoulder the hefty emotional weight of Paul Dano’s directorial debut, supported by an underused but nonetheless brilliant Jake Gyllenhaal.
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BlacKkKlansman is a wake up call dressed up as a comedy
Blackkklansman is so much more than a movie or cultural capsule, it is a lesson and rallying call.
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Protest Song by Tim Price at the Camden People’s Theatre
Protest Song leaves you uncomfortable but wanting to know more. And it leaves you feeling like you should do better.
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Spiders by Billie Collins
Spiders isn’t perfect. Spiders isn’t completed – I hope. Instead, it’s peak fringe theatre: rough, vital, compelling, effective.
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Put Some Records On! #4
Foxing – Nearer My God As befits the title of their latest studio outing, Foxing are certainly reaching for new heights – once considered the band that would be post-rock’s saving grace, the Missouri quartet have proven themselves so much more than the faces of a single genre. Nearer My God is a Herculean studio…
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How To Cope With Embarrassment review
How To Cope With Embarrassment offers us a delicious platter of first-class cringe. The show poignantly opens with the classic statement from 2007’s Miss South Carolina when asked why she thinks a fifth of Americans cannot locate their country on a map, to which she responded: “I personally believe that U.S. Americans […] uhmmm, some people…
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Exit the King
In Exit The King, Marber mixes clowning and comedy to create one of the year’s truest tragicomedies.
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This fortnight has given us some brilliant music from Phantastic Ferniture, emo newcomers No Better, and Mississippi garage rock bastion Bass Drum of Death.
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Singles of the Week
It’s hot. It might be too hot. Here at The Panoptic though, we’ve got some cool new beats that we’ve been chilling to over the past week. With a dollop of Chance the Rapper and a helping of Kasai, these are our Singles of the Week.
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Other People’s Teeth review
Matt Neubauer reviews Other People’s Teeth’s last show before it hits the Edinburgh Fringe.
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