REVIEW: Unprecedented, BBC4 iPlayer ✭✭✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews Headlong’s Unprecedented, created with Century Films for the BBC now playing on iPlayer. Watch now!
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REVIEW: Frankenstein, National Theatre at Home Online ✭✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews the National Theatre’s Frankenstein starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller rotating the lead roles online.
REVIEW: Present Laughter, BroadwayHD ✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews the recent Broadway production of Noel Coward’s Present Laughter starring Kevin Kline now streaming on BroadwayHD
REVIEW: Daddy Long Legs, BroadwayHD ✭✭✭✭
Douglas Mayo reviews Daddy Long Legs the musical now streaming on BroadwayHD.
REVIEW: The Toxic Avenger, Streaming on Broadway HD ✭✭✭✭✭
Rig your Broadway HD up to a big TV, crank up the sound, get some mates around and be prepared to witness plenty of ooze, and contaminate your evening with laughter as you watch The Toxic Avenger.
REVIEW: Lucky Stiff, DVD ✭✭
Whilst Lucky Stiff may be of interest to fanatics for its sheer novelty value, it is so silly and saccharine that it may struggle to find an audience elsewhere.
DVD Review: The Day We Sang
If, like me you had been relaxing over the Christmas break and were tuned into your TV, you might have been lucky enough to catch a little gem of a programme called The Day We Sang which has now been released on DVD. Written by national treasure Victoria Wood, The Day We Sang was originally commissioned as a play for the Manchester International festival. It is the story of Enid and Tubby, two adults who as children were involved in the children’s choir recording of Nymphs and Shepherds in the Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1929 and how their lives had changed many years later. The Day We Sang stars Michael Ball as Tubby and Imelda Staunton as Enid. They bring massive amounts of heart to the heartfelt story of two people facing a second chance in life. Balls portrayal of the over-enthusiastic, always smiling, overly likeable Tubby played against … Read more
