Review: “The Grapes of Wrath” starring Sorcha Cusack and Damian O’Hare
Apart from “I love you”, perhaps the most dangerous statement in the English language is…
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Review: “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” starring Daniel Radcliffe
Going to see a Harry Potter film bears a similarity to attending a family reunion,…
Review: “Cyrano de Bergerac” starring Joseph Fiennes
It’s atypical to write a review of a play after it closes: perhaps such an…
Review: “Waiting for Godot” starring Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart
My introduction to the works of Samuel Beckett was botched. It occured in an undergraduate…
Review: “Another Gulmohar Tree” by Aamer Hussein
[AMAZONPRODUCT=1846590566] Few nations have as an anarchic a reputation as Pakistan. Because of its present…
Review: “Star Trek” starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto
One of mankind’s principal preoccupations is predicting its own demise. The Mayans supposedly put together…
Review: “Let the Right One In” starring Kåre Hedebrant & Lina Leandersson
It’s uncommon to associate melancholy with either majesty or beauty, particularly in the English speaking…
Review: A View from the Foothills by Chris Mullin
[AMAZONPRODUCT=1846682231] Perhaps the most depressing aspect of Britain’s Labour government is the amount of conformity…
Review: “Chicago” by Alaa Al Aswany
[AMAZONPRODUCT=0061452564] It’s difficult not to sympathise with Margaret Mitchell. After she put down her pen…
Review: “Blindness” by Jose Saramago
[AMAZONPRODUCT=0156035588] I happened across the works of Jose Saramago quite by accident; the Slovene philosopher…