Paul Gainey
Ten Pound Poms
Danny Brocklehurst is perhaps best known as a writer on Shameless and Brassic, series with big mouths, big hearts and anarchic spirits,...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 202 min read
Without Sin
Without Sin is a heavyweight thriller cut from the same cloth as Happy Valley and Save Me, so fans of deep-rooted trauma and grief...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 202 min read
Succession
Tonight’s episode of 'Succession' was one of the best in the entire series, if not the best, which I suppose should come as no surprise:...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 203 min read
Steeltown Murders
Big warning and spoiler alert - do not read this if you have not watched the last episode of BBC's Steeltown Murders. Who was Joseph...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 193 min read
Succession
There was, in the end, no joy for the Roys. The backstabbing siblings exited the final ever episode of "Succession" much as they had...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 193 min read
Poker Face
"Poker Face" is a modern homage to the classic murder-mystery-of-the-week shows which filled those parts of 1970s and 80s television...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 193 min read
Poker Face
Thank goodness for Poker Face, the enormously successful mystery-a-week show that debuted in the US earlier this year and has finally...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 192 min read
Best Interests
Written by Jack Thorne (Help, Kiri, The Virtues), Best Interests is a devastating four-part drama about a family torn apart over making a...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 194 min read
Anna Karenina, Bristol Old Vic Theatre
Bristol Old Vic’s summer blockbuster for 2023 is a world premiere of Tolstoy’s 19th century classic, ‘Anna Karenina’, adapted for the...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 197 min read
Bruce Springsteen, Villa Park
Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band blew into Birmingham on Friday night, thundering through a barnstorming three-hour set for their...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 195 min read
Bruce Springsteen, Hyde Park
Bruce Springsteen called on London to “be good to yourself and the ones you love” as he rolled back the years during a three-hour, 29...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 193 min read
Oklahoma!, Wyndham's Theatre
Less a revival than a dark and unsettling reimagining of the well-loved Western-themed musical, Daniel Fish’s audacious deconstruction of...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 193 min read
Patriots, Noel Coward Theatre
Peter Morgan’s ‘Patriots’ feels both blessed and cursed by topicality. Clearly it would have been commissioned long before Russia’s...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 193 min read
2:22 A Ghost story
Lily Allen’s star casting worked wonders for the West End run of ghost story “2:22”. But “The Pillowman”, Martin McDonagh’s 2003 play...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 195 min read
Bruce Springsteen, Hyde Park
Bruce Springsteen may be in his eighth decade. But, backed by a tight E Street Band and under a golden setting sun at Hyde Park in...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 194 min read
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Indiana Jones is back. It's been 34 years since the film that was supposed to be his farewell outing – it even had "Last" in the title –...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 193 min read
The Sixth Commandment
Written by Sarah Phelps and directed by Saul Dibb, The Sixth Commandment (BBC1) tells the true story of retired Stowe schoolmaster Peter...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 163 min read
Evil
"Evil" from creators Michelle and Robert King, takes the knowing, literate, hyper-contemporary tone of those creators' The Good Wife and...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 164 min read
Oppenheimer
“Oppenheimer” is director/writer Christopher Nolan’s best and most revealing work. It’s a profoundly unnerving story told with a...
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