I wondered to myself this week, if what the world really needed in November 2018 was a new grim-dark remake of Robin Hood; a story so thoroughly done to death in Western cinema that when Hollywood tried this in 2009, audiences and critics panned it and collectively prayed it would be the last we saw […]
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Review: SHERWOOD @ Kay House
The story of Robin Hood is age old, and whether you are acquainted with it through the 1973 Disney film, or just through its sheer notoriety, mention that an adaptation of Robin Hood is being performed and just wait for seats to fill up. This was definitely the case with Theatre with Teeth and Shotgun […]
Alan Rickman: A life on film
Alan Rickman has sadly died. In the week that we also lost Bowie, it is a massive shock to British culture and although we mythologise them in our minds as eternal superhumans, it is a sorrowful reminder that our icons cannot live forever. Rickman has been a national emblem for British stage and screen for […]