London photo: impressive mechanism
Part of some sort of drawbridge, perhaps.
Month: June 2014
Hellion rating: green light
Kat Candler’s exploration of toxic male adolescence is handsome and haunting, with a star-making performance by its young star, but we’ve seen this before.
Belle movie review: untold stories
Wonderful true story about a mixed-race woman raised in aristocratic late-18th-century England; like the best Jane Austen romance with a social conscience.
Oculus movie review: broken glass
The eerie atmosphere of psychological upset is intriguing and unusual, but it’s not actually all that scary.
112 Weddings documentary review: after the party ends
A startling and welcome breath of reality for an institution overladen by fantasy in our culture. Happily ever after is hard!
A Perfect Plan movie review: dumb and dumber
With rom-coms like this, who needs warcrimes? This is the most cruel, most contrived romantic comedy I have ever had the displeasure to endure.
The Diary of a Nobody stage review (White Bear Theatre, Kennington)
Wonderfully weird madcap nonsense: imagine Monty Python staging a Victorian sitcom.
London photo: Thames Tunnel airshaft
This dramatic structure housing an airshaft for the historic Thames Tunnel was not part of the tour…
London photo: an unusual view of a tube platform
It’s not often you get to see the platform from down on the tracks.
Game of Thrones S04 E09: “The Watchers on the Wall” (there might be giants)
I am declaring the wholly Watchers-on-the-Wall stories the Klingon episodes of Game of Thrones…
