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Reading & watching- The Beating Heart (Denise O'Hagan 2020) 26 September 2020A new book of poems from Ginninderra Press.
- NetFlix: Staged (Simon Evans 2020) 26 September 2020Michael Sheen, David Tennant and Simon Evans play unflattering versions of themselves in a Covid-times show about rehearsing for a West End production of Six Characters in Search of an Author. Most of happens on zoom and appears to be ad libbed. Samuel T Jackson makes a guest appearance. We watched all six half-hour episodes in a night, and enjoyed it a lot. […]
- Tenet (Christopher Nolan 2020) 24 September 2020I'm glad I saw this in a theatre. The sheer spectacle kept me engaged, and I would probably have turned it off on a small screen. Like Nolan's early movie The Prestige, it's an elaborate sleight of hand without much else to it, but this one has an enormous amount of cash on the screen, lots of noisy explosions and oodles of timey-wimey stuff. […]
- The Split Season 2 (Abi Norman 2020) 22 September 2020Marriages are splitting up or not all over the place. The second season of this show is as excellent as the first. There are no baddies. Well, there is one, played by the excellent Ben Bailey Smith.
- The Translators (Régis Roinsard 2019) 20 September 2020This has been compared to Knives Out. I see why, but this is much more fun than that It's a locked room mystery and its elaborate twists aren't really surprising, but I loved every minute of it – helped perhaps by this being only the third time I've been to the movies in six months or so. Eight translators are locked in a high-security locatio […]
- The Beating Heart (Denise O'Hagan 2020) 26 September 2020
