The Diary of a Nobody stage review (White Bear Theatre, Kennington)
Wonderfully weird madcap nonsense: imagine Monty Python staging a Victorian sitcom.
Evelyn Waugh
question of the weekend: What’s the funniest book you’ve ever read?
I would choose The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. It remains hilarious every time I read it…
a little bit of David Tennant: ‘Bright Young Things’
Oh man, do I love this movie. It’s so good, and so chock full of a slew of bright young British actors — Michael Sheen, Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, Fenella Woolgar, James McAvoy — that I always forget that David Tennant is in it until he suddenly shows up and starts behaving in a … more…
Brideshead Revisited (review)
I wanted to like this, because it’s British and costume-y and 1920s and 30s and I’m a complete sucker for all that jazz. And I just can’t.
