Of all the 248 films showing at the 58th London Film Festival I managed 37. Some I’d anticipated from the beginning of the year, some I curiously waltzed in on after being caught up in the current of hype, and some, I’ll admit, I watched as I didn’t want to be the only one in … Continue reading
Satirical thriller Nightcrawler beckons us in to the vulturous industry of capturing human roadkill on tape. Apparently, opportunists can make a tidy sum by being first on the scene of a crime and capturing the tragedy – the bloodier the footage, the bigger the buck. A slender, particularly bug-eyed Jake Gyllenhaal is Lou Bloom – … Continue reading
I may have been sad about the passing of Sue Townsend but my child self was devastated. My child self once gripped Adrian Mole’s Secret Diaries with Ribena-stained hands flicking through the pages from under my Rainbow Bright duvet. I relished the unfolding of his hapless life identifying the bumps in his road to adulthood, … Continue reading
‘I Heart Poetry’ was a haven for those both wrapped-up or fed-up with that rose-tinged calendar event – Valentine’s Day. As part of Ideas Tap Love Take over, playwright, spoken-word poet and all round creative wizardress Sabrina Mahfouz, gathered her poetic posse to grace the Rich Mix stage on the cusp of Shoreditch for a … Continue reading
This is the professional work, the mindful play and the interesting times of me, Corrina Antrobus.
