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At Home With Hootman: From ‘Jules et Jim’ to ‘Lawrence of Belgravia’
What’s hot on the box? Tune into these film reviews from Michael Hootman
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REVIEW: Circa Sacre @ Theatre Royal Brighton (BRIGHTON FESTIVAL)
The choreography is impressive: fluid and gliding and suitably gravity-defying. However, due to my manifest limitations, I wanted to leave after about ten minutes.
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AT HOME WITH HOOTMAN: From ‘The Proposition’ to ‘Lot In Sodom’
What’s hot on the box? Michael Hootman tunes into the best and worst TV and film
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BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Help! I Think I Might Be Fabulous @Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
It’s been quite a while since I’ve failed to connect with a show as deeply as I failed to connect with this one – it might as well have been performed in Lithuanian so little did I appreciate what was happening on stage.
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REVIEW: Dealer’s Choice@88 London Road
Patrick Marber’s play is a jaundiced look at masculinity and shows how men fail at being fathers, sons and friends. During one night of poker the game itself becomes a kind of weapon which the play’s characters use to goad, taunt and humiliate each other. But the portraits presented, though far from
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REVIEW: John Grant at the Dome
Last night Grant played an impressive set showcasing material from his latest album, Grey Tickles, Black Pressure. It’s a work I’ve been having some difficulty with – some of the lyrics are maybe a tad arch – but seeing him live won me over.
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DVD FILM REVIEW: SHOAH (AND 4 FILMS AFTER SHOAH)
This four-disc set starts with Claude Lanzmann’s nine-and-a-half-hour ‘documentary’ about the Holocaust. The word is in inverted commas as it’s a description the director himself rejects. It’s a collage comprising interviews with victims, perpetrators and innocent, and not so innocent, bystanders of
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US film adaptation for local author
Brighton-based writer and Gscene Arts Editor Michael Hootman is to have one of his short stories filmed in the States. LA-based artist Stuart Sandford has adapted the work for the big screen. XVWE will star Michael Kearns (And the Band Played On, Knots Landing), the first Hollywood actor to come out