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NIGEL HEATH TAKES A WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE ON CORNWALL’S BEAUTIFUL ROSELAND...
We were on the road again and this time my wife Jenny and I were heading west along the fast- moving A30 through Cornwall before turning off across quiet and rolling open country heading for The...
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This beautiful, if at times contrived, wildlife documentary describes a...
Joyce Glasser reviews Heart of an Oak (Cert U), 81 mins. In cinemas from July 12, and Digital Downloads from August 12, 2024 Laurent Charbonnier and Michel Seydoux’s stunning film has no dialogue or...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Lucas Hnath’s Red Speedo at Orange Tree Theatre,...
Red Speedo by the American playwright Lucas Hnath raises moral and ethical questions in sport. Cheating at the Olympic Games is nothing new and has been going on ever since they began in 776 BCE and...
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest masterwork takes a complaint about a...
Joyce Glasser reviews About Dry Grasses (July 26, 2024) Cert. 15, 198 mins. The ninth film from the great 65-year-old Turkish director (co-writer, co-editor and producer) Nuri Bilge Ceylan has much in...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Death of England: The Plays @sohoplace, London.
Death of England, a decade in the making, its run at the National Theatre curtailed and cancelled by the COVID-19 epidemic, finally arrives in the West End. Death of England is the collective title...
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Robert Tanitch reviews a touring production of A Chorus Line at Sadler’s...
Backstage stories have always been the norm ever since Hollywood discovered the musical. The most popular cliché is the one in which a girl steps out of the chorus to stand in for the leading lady and...
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Why Tennis is the Perfect Sport For You To Play
As the summer months come around each year, many of us think of how we are going to enjoy the longer, hopefully sunnier, days. You could spend them relaxing by the pool or lounging in your backyard....
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Lucky Lawn: Landscaping With A Clover Lawn
After having a bad reputation and misconception as a weed for many years, clover is making a comeback – big time. Is it time to jump on the popular clover lawn trend? Let’s take a look. Why Plant...
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The Curzon’s Béla Tarr season features his masterpiece, The Werckmeister...
Joyce Glasser reviews Béla Tarr Mini-Retrospective (August 10-September 2024) Curzon cinemas featuring The Werckmeister Harmonies (August 10-11), Cert 12, 147 mins. Multiple cinemas When Hungarian...
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GOING ASTRAY ON THE STAFFORDSHIRE WAY
By Nigel Heath We did a giant leapfrog when we returned to complete the very rural Staffordshire Way. My lifelong walking companion and poet Peter Gibbs and I had walked our first three days on this...
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Charity launches petition to save the Winter Fuel Payment
In light of the recent government decision to means test winter fuel payments (WFP), charity, Age UK, has launched an emergency petition to help save the payments for all pensioners. The petition...
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Robert Tanitch reviews The Grapes of Wrath at National Theatre/Lyttleton...
John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath in 1939. It is one of the great American novels, a powerful historical documentation and an angry condemnation of the Great Depression in the 1930’s. It...
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What is Saharan Dust & How Does it Affect the Country?
Sometimes, the complex weather systems surrounding our island can deliver an unexpected visitor – Saharan sand. This happens several times a year, when dust from the Sahara Desert is carried north by...
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WATCH FILMS AT HOME: Robert Tanitch reviews 6 films
THE SMALL BACK ROOM (StudioCanal). A Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger dour 1949 film. World War II crippled scientist (David Farrar) has a drink problem and a troubled relationship with his...
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The inspirational teacher genre gets an uplifting if formulaic new chapter in...
Joyce Glasser reviews Radical (August 9, 2024) Cert. 12A, 122 minutes, What is radical in Christopher Zalla’s second feature is the teaching method employed by an unlikely sixth grade teacher in an...
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A chilling look inside the Taliban as they build a military regime from...
Joyce Glasser reviews Hollywoodgate (August 16, 2024) Cert 12A, 91 mins. In cinemas. In some of the best documentaries directors take us on an unpredictable journey and are as surprised at their...
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An original, clever concept for a rom-com, and a Jewish social satire, but...
Joyce Glasser reviews Between the Temples (August 23, 2024) Cert 15, 111 mins. In cinemas Who doesn’t relish the prospect of a Jewish Harold and Maude that might have been an unpublished script left...
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Though lavishly shot on location, Thomas Napper’s take of one of France’s...
Joyce Glasser reviews Widow Clicquot (August 30, 2024) Cert 15, 90 mins. In cinemas The phrase “missed opportunity” has seldom been more apt than it is when applied to Thomas Napper’s biopic of...
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Robert Tanitch reviews The State Ballet of Georgia’s Swan Lake at the London...
The State Ballet of Georgia makes its first visit to England with the most popular ballet in the world. No other ballet is staged so often. No other ballet is more loved. No other ballet has had so...
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This riveting French epic is a brilliant adaptation of one of the greatest...
Joyce Glasser reviews The Count of Monte Cristo (August 30, 2024) Cert 12A, 177 mins. In cinemas While so many American and British two-and-a-half-hour plus action movies are instantly forgettable,...
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