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Paul Gainey
Aug 15, 20242 min read
Elles Bailey - Beneath The Neon Glow Tour 2024
After a standout performance at Glastonbury earlier this year and in search of her highest charting album to date, one of the UK’s finest...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20243 min read
Only Murders in the Building
The latest example of lighthearted murder mystery comes from comedy legend Steve Martin, who stars alongside Martin Short and Selena...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read
Barry
"Barry", Bill Hader and Alec Berg’s dark HBO comedy, concerns a hitman (Hader) who is hired to kill a member of an acting workshop, but...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read
The Flight Attendant
The ingredients that make up “The Flight Attendant,” HBO Max’s highly entertaining, stealthily thoughtful thriller, should all feel...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read
Abbott Elementary
The hilarious mockumentary set in a US school, Abbott Elementary, is full of astonishingly rapid-fire jokes, immaculate timing and...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20243 min read
Crossfire
How to sum up Crossfire (BBC One), except as Die Hard sponsored by Jet2 Holidays? It is a boxset thriller in which Keeley Hawes - the...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read
The Rise of the Nazis
History documentaries mixing expert analysis and dramatic reconstructions are commonplace, but the BBC’s "Rise of the Nazis" has been a...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20244 min read
The Rise of the Nazis
In the last episode of 'The Rise of the Nazis' (BBC) the death, on April 12, 1945, of President Roosevelt was for Adolf Hitler his last...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20243 min read
Bob Dylan, The London Palladium
Troubadour Bob Dylan turns from guitar ace to piano man for a sublime bluesy night at the London Palladium as the Nobel prize winner's...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20243 min read
Samantha Fish, Tramshed
Blues rock guitar phenomenon Samantha Fish is currently one of the most talked about names in the genre. With a career spanning over 10...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read
Wille & The Bandits, Tramshed
Boundary-blasting UK roots rockers Wille & The Bandits supported Samantha Fish at the Tramshed in Cardiff. They had the tough job of...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20243 min read
Ticket to Paradise
"Ticket to Paradise,” the latest vacation romp from the filmmaker Ol Parker (who penned “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” and wrote and...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read
Good Luck To You, Leo Grande
The inelegantly named "Good Luck To You, Leo Grande" manages to keep one foot firmly on the floor of enjoyably progressive entertainment...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20243 min read
SAS: Rogue Heroes
SAS: Rogue Heroes (BBC One), Steven Knight’s first time back on the BBC since the end of Peaky Blinders, is a big and brash adventure...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read
Double Feature, Hampstead Theatre
Alfred Hitchcock was a brilliant filmmaker, but he was undoubtedly also a complicated man with a penchant for manipulating and...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read
Hadestown, Lyric Theatre
It’s been a long road for mythological musical 'Hadestown' from American singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, stopping off at a 2010 concept...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read
Echo 3
This isn’t Jason Bourne,” says a character in an early episode of Echo 3. It feels like a pointed observation, and an unusually meta...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read
Alice & Jack
What’s in the ether with sputtering, on-off romances at the moment? We’ve just had the Netflix adaptation of One Day. Now, there’s Victor...
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