Liverpool Biennial 2016:
Cains Brewery.

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"We are not of this race. We are not of this earth. Susan and I are wanderers in the fourth dimension of space and time, cut off from...

Liverpool Biennial 2016:
Introduction.

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Art   Here we go again ...  Up until about half ten this morning I didn't own a collapsible umbrella. Having recently bought a new co...

Cathy Come Home: The Stage Show.

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Theatre Last night The Barbican offered a stage version of Ken Loach's seminal film Cathy Come Home and have presented a recording o...

The Superlambanana is in a Fucking Mess (Updated!)

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Art Excellent news. This blog post was picked up by Radio Merseyside who reported on it this afternoon. They've spoken to the coun...

My Favourite Film of 1939.

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Film The first time I heard the soundtrack album to Good Morning Vietnam was during a sponsored walk at a scout hut in Garston in the la...

Hamlet: A Critical Reader. Edited by Neil Taylor and Ann Thompson.

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Books   Yesterday whilst writing about Thompson and Taylor's introduction to the revised edition of their 2006 Arden Third Series public...

Hamlet: Revised Edition. (The Arden Shakespeare). Edited by Neil Taylor and Ann Thompson.

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Books In an effort to acknowledge the passage of time and how even some of their Third Series publications might require some reconsiderat...

A Viewing Order For Star Trek.

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TV Well, I tried. With all of television Star Trek materialising on Netflix UK yesterday, I thought it might be an idea to put together a...

Shakespeare at the BBC: Talawa Theatre Company's King Lear.

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Shakespeare Big news. Talawa Theatre Company's King Lear, recently at the Royal Exchange in Manchester with Don "Rassilon" ...

Vogue 100 at Manchester Art Gallery.

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Fashion In an attempt to take a break from hearing about the total destruction of our way of life (or whatever this is) for a few hours,...

Sugababes announce new album.

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Music   Siobhan's announced that she Mutya and Keisha are releasing a new album next year.  Even as the world fall down around our feet,...

Soup Safari #66: Broccoli and Stilton at Manchester Art Gallery Cafe.

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Lunch. £3.95. Manchester Art Gallery Cafe, Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3JL. Tel: 0161 235 8888. Website.

My Favourite Film of 1940.

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Film For quite some time, I was in two minds about the notion of an in-vision announcer presenting films, either as part of a strand or ...

Shakespeare's Globe at the BBC: The Complete Walk.

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Theatre The Complete Walk was a "festival" of short films which appeared on giant screens in and around the Thames and through...

Soup Safari #65: Pea, Lettuce and Mint at the Hayloft Restaurant in Erddig.

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Lunch. £4.50. Hayloft restaurant, Erddig Hall, Erddig, Wrexham LL13 0YT. Telephone: 01978 355314. Website.

Erddig.

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Erddig’s story is all about relationships – those of the family, the servants and the wider community. It is unpretentious, unconventiona...

My Favourite Film of 1941.

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Film The only occasion I saw Citizen Kane in an auditorium was in screen six of the then newly refurbished Odeon cinema on London Road i...

38 Maxine Peake

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Theatre Let's begin at the ending or indeed further than the ending into the credits which include the following statement: "Th...

Art Museum.

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Books  In case you've been wondering why I've been a bit absent from around these parts this past couple of weeks, assuming it...

Emmy and the Doctor.

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TV Crikey, this is a turn up : "BBC America’s “Doctor Who” has been submitted for Emmy consideration for the first time ever. Now th...