The Boy Who Cried review (The Hope Theatre, Islington)
This fascinating new plays works as a bitter commentary on the bureaucraticization of torture, and the difficulties of dealing with mental illness.
Month: March 2014
“can women save film criticism?”
If it’s a thankless, underpaid job… then of course it’ll be left to women to do. Thanks, guys!
Doctor Who thing: Marks & Spencer thinks Doctor Who is for boys only
WTF, M&S? Girls and women like Doctor Who, too…
A Long Way Down trailer: the suicide comedy
If anyone can pull this off, as a writer, it’s Nick Hornby.
London photo: ghost ad
In Highgate Village.
Doctor Who thing: Peter Capaldi reassures young autistic fan that she will be welcome in the TARDIS
I might have something in my eye…
The Two Faces of January trailer: so I can finish falling in love with Oscar Isaac
Ooo. Sleek 60s style, intrigue in foreign lands, maybe some illicit romance? I’m in.
London photo of the day: (Bob) Marley
Some wag put pen to ventilation fan in the loo at The Breakfast Club restaurant in Soho.
The Patience Stone review: a woman’s place
A beautiful and haunting Afghan film about love, devotion, and a woman’s “duty”; a remarkable feminist story from the unlikeliest place on the planet.
smacking sexist Broken Circle Breakdown marketing
C’mon, people. This stuff… it’s not that difficult to not be jerks about it.
