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Poor Things
To describe director Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film Poor Things, which is adapted by Tony McNamara (The Favourite) from the 1992 novel by...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20242 min read
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The Zone of Interest
Some films strike like a lightning bolt on a first watch and stay with you, scarring themselves into your psyche and subtly but...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20243 min read
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Annika
Ever since Nicola Walker was unforgivably written out of Unforgotten, leaving Sanjeev Bhaskar with no one to moon at over the body bags,...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20242 min read
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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,...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20243 min read
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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...
Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20242 min read
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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:...
Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20242 min read
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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...
Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20243 min read
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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...
Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20243 min read
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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...
Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20243 min read
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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...
Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20243 min read
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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...
Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20242 min read
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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...
Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20244 min read
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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...
Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20247 min read
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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...
Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20245 min read
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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...
Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20243 min read
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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...
Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20243 min read
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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...
Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20243 min read
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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...
Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20245 min read
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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 –...
Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20244 min read
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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...
Paul Gainey
Feb 19, 20243 min read
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