IFTAs 2015: Beautiful Men!
What am I doing posting about the 2015 film and drama IFTA’s, which happened last MAY? It’s simple: I found this …
Category Archives: Reviews: Books, Theater, Film
The Life of Stuff (1997)
Imagine the grotesquerie, weird excess and dark comedy of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast taking place in an abandoned nightclub in 1990’s Glasgow. Instead …
Thou Shouldst Not Have Been Old Till Thou Hadst Been Wise
Zombie posts all this week while I am in Germany giving a paper, drinking beer and not eating sausage! I’ll …
Fear of Flying (1973)
If semi-autobiographical confessions with explicit sexual content are no longer shocking, it is in large part thanks to Philip Roth and …
The Night Alive at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast
I really wish I could see this! Conor McPherson is again directing his play, but this time with a very …
Masculinity in “The Godfather”
Why do men adore The Godfather, the 1972 film by Francis Ford Coppola? Is it because the film depicts a bygone world …
Naughty Bits in Beowulf (2007)
I didn’t see Beowulf in a cinema, so I missed out on the eye-popping spectacle of a 3-D naked Angelina Jolie, …
Non-Hit Man: Agent 47
A London stage production of a 415-year old play has been proclaimed a “blockbuster” and is trending on social media. Meanwhile, a …
Nature Boy: “Hamlet” at the Barbican
Nature Boy: Hamlet at the Barbican Spoiler alert. Everyone knows the plot of Hamlet, but this post contains plenty of …
Madame Ovary: The Hysterical Literature Project
Trust me to discover something cool online by reading a paper mag. But it was in Vanity Fair that I read …
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