by Dave Bradley | Oct 10, 2021 | Books, Reviews
Miriam Margolyes (John Murray) 2021, 437pp, RRP $49.99 The marvellous Miriam finally pens an epic, no-holds-barred (of course) memoir, mostly written during lockdown last year, and the result is a wonderfully rude and funny yet also, at times, deeply sad tale. “I’m...
by Dave Bradley | May 7, 2016 | Film, Interviews
by Dave Bradley. Barbara Crampton speaks via Skype (from her home “outside San Francisco”), and while the main focus is upon her role in writer/director Abner Pastoll’s psychodramatic thriller Road Games we also her long career in general, and some of her previous...
by Michael Coghlan | Sep 4, 2015 | Reviews, Theatre
Space Theatre, Thu 3 Sep F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is an American classic – an epic even – and this production is a thoroughly entertaining depiction of what is essentially a fascinating tale about east coast American society in the early 1920s. Jay...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 10, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Ray Winstone (A&U Canongate) 2014, 251pp, RRP $29.99 A diamond geezer, frequently fine actor and slightly scary old bugger, Ray Winstone’s autobiography is a highly variable affair, with lovely jokes, messy prose, wobbly chronology, moving sentiments and too much...