Gary Naylor

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Review: YENTL, Marylebone Theatre Australian adaptation of the original story, not the film, packs a punch

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**** from me

A ★★½ review of Turner & Constable (2026) Another very glossy, leisurely walk round an exhibition with talking heads explaining stuff and lots of exterior shots of a bucolic England which must have pleased the Tourist Board. The trouble is th...

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A ★ review of The Bride! (2026) How does a film have so much going for it yet be so boring that only the absurd plotholes shake you out of the overwhelming urge to check your watch every five minutes? Pitched somewhere between a got...

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Well, how're you feeling now you've had time to think about those three goals?

A ★★★★ review of The Secret Agent (2025) A VW Beetle pulls into a godforsaken petrol station at a dusty roadside. A dead body is covered by cardboard, dogs being chased off by the sweating attendant. Police arrive, uninterested in the corpse...

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Review: THE WRONG THEY KNEW, Chickenshed Theatre Musical set in the late 1950s with a strong message for today

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A ★★★★★ review of EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) I didn't much care for Baz Luhmann's Elvis biopic - too much Baz, and, let's be honest, a little Baz goes a long way. My heart sank when the opening titles also screamed BAZ!!!, but, hard though it is...

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A ★★½ review of Sound of Falling (2025) What do you get if you cross The Tin Drum, The Sacrifice and The White Ribbon? Something like these slow, occassionally beautiful, often grim, tales of four girls living at different times in the same...

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A ★ review of Midwinter Break (2026) Join the dots story of two retirees (she has a secret vow, he has a secret drinking problem) who go to Amsterdam for a few days where long suppressed tensions boil over. Ciarán Hinds and Lesley Manvil...

Some British films are very hard to watch.

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A ★★★ review of The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) This is a tough watch, not because it makes demands on concentration or is wilfully obscure, as some arthouse movies can be, but it is so 'other' for an Englishman. Oscar Wilde wrote, "We have really ...

Safe to say that George Michael's view that "Sex is natural, sex is good / Not everybody does it, but everybody should" would not get him very far in The Shakers.

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A ★★★★ review of Hail, Caesar! (2016) Feels somewhere between Robert Altman's The Player and Damien Chazelle's Babylon, but Hollywood is hardly short of films about Hollywood. The Coen Brothers' satire follows 36 hours in the life of Eddi...

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A ★★★★★ review of Orwell: 2+2=5 (2025) Terrifying. I was always able to be slightly superior about ideologues like Orwell, who construct art around an unshakeable political principle. As with Ayn Rand, what emerges is, more often than not,...

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Very much worth a watch @mrjamesob.bsky.social.

Nothing is debunked more swiftly than the old reputation that possibly still clings to the Glasgow accent. Completely obliterated by contact with so many kind and polite people.

But no indirect free kicks for obstruction?

A ★★★½ review of Late Fame (2025) I've enjoyed 15 seconds of fame myself and it's seductive. You try to bat the glow of recognition away, but it's effortful to do so and you know your polite and bashful words carry little conviction. ...

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A ★★★★½ review of Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) It's hard to get portmanteau films right. One segment is always the weakest and drags down the movie as a whole; another doesn't seem to fit; and another comprises performances that just aren't as goo...

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A ★★★★★ review of The Battle of Algiers (1966) Like Strangelove, I had avoided watching this movie as I did not believe that it could not live up to its reputation. Like Strangelove, it exceeded it. Tracking the popular uprising and guerilla warfa...

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A ★★★★½ review of Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026) Five years ago, in 2021, the Covid stalks the land - the masks give it away. But on a bright quiet May morning, the day of Eid al-Fitr, in a diverse Glasgow suburb of Pollokshields, a more visible thr...

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Die Nasty.

Hit Me Baby One More Time.

Second Hands Out!

New British Drama in 15 Scenes - Aleks Sierz News about my latest book about contemporary British theatre, new writing and beyond New British Drama in 15 Scenes: Adventures in Theatre Criticism

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'Every billet-doux came with a hefty side order of billet-don’t' DEAR LIAR #JermynStreetTheatre - Shaw on a sure thing?
No sex please, we're British (and Irish): @garynaylor85.bsky.social ponders (new, for him) concepts of #GeorgeBernardShaw and the Shavian www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/dear...

New British Drama in 15 Scenes - Aleks Sierz News about my latest book about contemporary British theatre, new writing and beyond New British Drama in 15 Scenes: Adventures in Theatre Criticism

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Well worth watching.

A flawed but important play.

In this week’s episode @garynaylor85.bsky.social and debutant John Mackay revisit Scotland’s opening match against the late Sepp Piontek’s glorious Danes. Also, Uruguay choose violence, France & the USSR run out of energy in the sun and there’s an underrated Diego goal.

In the usual places!

Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Leeds Playhouse Innovative take on familiar comedy proves hit and miss as lovers and fairies fight

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Review: SPANISH ORANGES starring Maryam d'Abo, Playground Theatre #MeToo and cancel culture needs a new angle sadly lacking in humdrum new play

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Fancy being as good as Robert Duvall was The Godfather Parts One and Two and not even being best supporting actor in the movies never mind the years.

Fine actor and made an unforgettable character in Lt Col Kilgore - once viewed as satire...

A ★★★½ review of Wuthering Heights (2026) I was going to say that I approached this movie blind - I hadn't read reviews, I'd only half-seen a trailer, I'd read no interviews and, crucially (or so I thought) I'd not read the book nor seen prev...

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