harrypd21Sep 15, 20192 min readTop Boy: A First Look In 2017, with secretive talk of rapper Drake’s interest in the Channel 4 series Top Boy, the show was revived for a third season on Netflix.
harrypd21May 4, 20182 min readNetflix’s comic adaptation, ‘Happy!’ is an enjoyable train wreckThe latest in Netflix’s comic book adaptations, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson, is a...
harrypd21Mar 1, 20183 min readMcDonagh’s Three Billboards is a tonal masterpieceMartin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri masterfully blends black comedy and drama within the framework of a crime...
harrypd21Feb 12, 20162 min readYou Talkin’ To Me? – Marvel’s Genre-Breaking Anti-HeroDespite pretty widespread positive reviews of Tim Miller’s latest addition to the Marvel franchise, namely Deadpool, there have been...
harrypd21Feb 1, 20162 min readSpotlight – Tom McCarthy’s graceful re-telling of Boston’s biggest abuse scandalTom McCarthy’s well-measured and weighty recounting of the 2001 Boston Globe’s “Spotlight” investigation into systemic child abuse in...
harrypd21Jan 12, 20162 min readThe Hateful Eight – A solid homage of Tarantino, by TarantinoLast weekend, Quentin Tarantino’s eighth feature length film, The Hateful Eight opened in UK cinemas to positive reviews; a...
harrypd21Nov 23, 20153 min readNT Live: More Mouse Than Man?American theatre director, Tony award winner and nominee, Anna D. Shapiro’s adaptation of Steinbeck’s well-trodden classroom favourite Of...
harrypd21Nov 6, 20152 min read‘Spectre’ – A Shadow of Bond At Its BestSpectre, double-0 Craig’s supposed last foray into the franchise, is just Bond-y enough to be quite good; but it seriously misses a trick...
harrypd21Oct 16, 20152 min read‘To be or not to be?’ (Back where it should be) – NT Live: Hamlet ReviewSo marks the midpoint of beloved Brit, Sherlock Holmes as the titular Hamlet in sold out screens (three, within the Barbican itself)...