Just go and see this
What is this? This is a broadcast play by the National Theatre, their output is excellent as I can attest to having watches a number of their plays overlock down. What's this play about? This play is about the life of Nye Bevan, the minister for health and housing in the Clement Atlee led post-war Labour Government, who founded the National Health Service.
Right now anyone who knows me will immediately understand why I went…
I respected what it was going for, but it's not for me.
I thought I would celebrate the glorious decimation of the Tory Party at the local elections by watching the movie that brought Lord Buckethead and eventually Count Binface into the world. What I saw was some sort of Star Wars parody. It's not completely awful.
Ok obviously with a film like this you expect the budget to be low and in fairness it's managed quite well. There isn't…
Rusty's three part love letter to Noele Gordon
For those who don't know what this is, it's a biopic about Noele Gordon and when she was sacked from Crossroads. I can't profess to know too much about her and I never saw an episode of Crossroads, however I watched because it was written by Russell T Davies.
As you can expect it has his snappy sassy dialogue and the occasional justified lecture about human nature so I was already enjoying…
This story is frankly not discussed as much as it should be. It's utterly terrific! The pace is slower (considering the story is 6 parts long), but it helps create that nervous tension that runs throughout. The performance by Tony Beckley really adds to this too, there's an unnerving smoothness to the way he delivers his dialogue. The production values are excellent too (even if the main creature is a repainted creature from the Claws of Axos). What really underpins…
