Too many cooks spoil the broth, and so do too many clichés – May The Devil Take You is brilliant on occasion, but mostly plays out as an inane, muddled collection of multicultural jumpscare ideas connected by a thinly-drawn plot.
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London Film Festival 2018: School’s Out
Loaded with enough intrigue to make you think yourself into a corner, School’s Out ramps up the dread at every turn, up to its (literally) explosive climax.
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London Film Festival 2018: Wildlife
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.
Read MorePut Some Records On! #3
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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