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Film 7 - Orwell: 2+2=5

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London Film Festival 2025 As promised after last year’s edition, I’m back at the London Film Festival with a slightly beefier roster… It’s not quite as many films as I’d like – partly bec…

BLOG POST UPDATE: London Film Festival 2025 - Lady mini-review

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Film 6 - Lady

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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere Source: The Playlist / 20th Century Studios “I want it to feel like I’m in the room by myself.” The recording of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska is much mythologised…

FILM REVIEW: Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
"A magnetic performance from Jeremy Allen White"

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My sole gala screening of this year's festival calls for a few more photos...

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Film 5 - Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

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LFF for Free: When Bruce Springsteen Came to Britain

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London Film Festival 2025 As promised after last year’s edition, I’m back at the London Film Festival with a slightly beefier roster… It’s not quite as many films as I’d like – partly bec…

BLOG POST UPDATE: London Film Festival 2025 - Saipan mini-review

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Film 4 - Saipan

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That's it - the Sunny tour has begun. Thank you, @palaceandopera.bsky.social 💛

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“Discovering The Classics” – The Kink Kontroversy The VitalsRelease date: 26 November 1965UK chart peak: #9Running time: 30:12Singles: Till the End of the Day (#8) Their second UK release of the year (following on from March’s Kinda Kinks), …

BLOG POST: "Discovering The Classics" - The Kink Kontroversy

To mark the first performance of the new #SunnyAfternoon tour, I've dug out another album celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.

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London Film Festival 2025 As promised after last year’s edition, I’m back at the London Film Festival with a slightly beefier roster… It’s not quite as many films as I’d like – partly bec…

BLOG POST UPDATE: London Film Festival 2025 - Indomptables mini-review

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REVIEW: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, BFI London Film Festival Daniel Craig returns as  Benoit Blanc to solve his most perplexing case to date – with some extremely clever twists… Rian Johnson has done it once again: created an intriguing murder-my…

Our first review from this years #BFIlondonfilm festival is now live! Find out what we made of Wake Up Dead Man here: lovelondonloveculture.com/2025/10/08/r...

Film 3 - Untamable (Indomptables)

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London Film Festival 2025 As promised after last year’s edition, I’m back at the London Film Festival with a slightly beefier roster… It’s not quite as many films as I’d like – partly bec…

BLOG POST: London Film Festival 2025 - mini-review collection

Starting with Knives Out & Tuner...

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Film 2 (Surprise Film) - Tuner

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Film 1 - Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

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Happy first LFF 2025 screening to me!

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#MindTheBard 2025: round-up At least I’m used to #MindTheBard weeks (and challenge weeks in general) being derailed by now… Yes, the previously mentioned tiring month at work had me completely run down almost befo…

BLOG POST: Mind The Bard 2025 round-up

In the year of Hamlets...

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Review: TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, Shakespeare's Globe One of the least performed plays in Shakespeare’s canon, and also one of the most aptly labelled as a ‘problem play’; Troilus and Cressida is ostensibly about the romance between these two Trojans, bu...

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It wouldn't be a Shakespeare week without a trip to The Globe, would it? Press night for Troilus and Cressida!

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#MindTheBard 2025: “The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!” – Troilus and Cressida preview Although named after two Trojan lovers, Troilus and Cressida mostly focuses on the events that take place towards the end of Homer’s Iliad. After Menelaus’ queen Helen left Sparta wit…

PREVIEW: Troilus and Cressida at The Globe

A rarely-performed play that was probably due a return.

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Review: HAMLET, National Theatre “Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.” Given the National Theatre’s history with one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, a new production of Hamlet is a natural fit in Indhu Rubasingha...

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To be at a Hamlet, or not be at a Hamlet?

I chose the former.

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It's a bloodfest for the next round of #MindTheBard! I'm back at Hampstead Theatre and really intrigued to see what Max Webster has done with Titus Andronicus.

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English Kings Killing Foreigners O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention… Nina Bowers and Philip Arditti are experienced members of the Globe Ensemble, having performed in various Shakespea…

This was one of my favourite shows of last year (wp.me/p5iPbU-b9V), and I'm so glad I got the chance to see it again.

Here's a reminder of my review from @camdenpt.bsky.social...

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For today's edition of #MindTheBard, we explore the enduring relevance of Shakespeare's works and what goes into the creation of a new production. Plus nationality, nationalism, identity, genocide... They pack a lot in!

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Born With Teeth Born With Teeth Photo credit: Johan Persson “Oh Jesus bless us, he is born with teeth!” How many early modern playwrights does it take to tell the story of Henry VI? Liz Duffy Adams’ two-hand…

Here's a reminder of my thoughts from press night...

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It could only be a return to Born With Teeth!

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Current reading material - any clues as to which show I saw tonight..?

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