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SHIVA BABY : where the last thing on everyone”s mind is Mourning
For her debut feature film Emma Seligman adapted her only brilliant funny short SHIVA BABY so successfully that she picked up the Best Screenplay Award at Outfest this year. We always knew that ‘jews’ and ‘gays’ usually make good ingredients for comedy especially ones that take aim at both communities, but rarely do they…
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Megan Mullally and much more …….streaming Live
Missing your regular fix of Megan Mullally during Lockdown? Well, worry not help is at hand. She and her actor hubby Nick Offerman are about to give a rare peek behind the curtain of Iceboy!, the hilarious and irreverent new musical from the co-creators of the Broadway hits The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling…
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BATHTIME FOR BRITAIN : a not very clean show
The writer/comedian and intrusive chanteuse Dr Adam Perchard fled London at the beginning of the Lockdown to stay with his long -suffering parents. Most of the time in their bathroom. He even cajoled them to take part in one of his ………how can we put it nicely?…… insane videos. After practising his…
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Andrew Hebden reviews The Wanderings of Ivan : from begging and theft to thuggery.
There is an awful lot of wandering about in the 1 hour and 15 mins of this Claude Chamis film and ultimately it leads nowhere. However Chamis almost manages to get away with it by a softly teasing appreciation of beauty that pulls the viewer in further and longer than a less discerning perspective…
