Crudo: Weddings, Wars, and the World’s End
Author: Olivia Laing Kathy is getting married in the summer of 2017, right in the midst of the Trump presidency,…
“Been So Long” Since I Reviewed A Bad Film
Netflix is having a great year for original films. To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before and Private Life have…
At LFF, An Audition For The Oscars
After premiering at the Venice, Toronto and New York film festivals, London welcomed many of the films that will be…
“Tell the stories true to you and people will understand” – Sandra Seeling Lipski
As the curtain closes on the London Film Festival, it rises in Mallorca. I had the pleasure to discuss the…
Music To My Ears – Reviewing The Latest Albums
Never Stop Never Stopping Tha Carter V – Lil Wayne Lil Wayne’s extensive and legendary career is represented by his…
Say Hello to Halo-Halo
For the first time in a long time, I had the moment. That moment. Where you’re lying in bed hours…
From “La La Land” to the stars – “First Man” shows Chazelle’s stellar quality
“We need to fail. We need to fail down here, so we don’t fail up there”, says Ryan Gosling’s Neil…
Magic, Marvel and Matilda: Musings around Musicals
A conversation about Matilda: the Musical, and how I bullied my friends into ditching dinner plans and working with me.…
“A Star Is Born”: A Tale of Two Artists
A Star is Born’s fourth incarnation brings revelations from both Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in his directorial debut. A…
King Lear for the Theatrically Illiterate: Thoughts on Ian McKellen, Dementia and Special Effects
Walking into the Duke of York Theatre, I knew exactly two things about Shakespeare’s famous tragedy: that the plot was…
