Category: Reviews
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THEATRE REVIEW: Death and the Kings Horseman (@ The National Theatre)
Review: Death and the Kings Horseman By Tola Ositelu A play by former Poet Laureate Wole Soyinka, Death and the Kings Horseman is a clash-of-culture tale set in the land of the Yoruba people of western Nigeria circa early 1940s. The Alafin, King of the Oyo people, dies after a lengthy reign. Tradition has it…
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Love Me by Gemma Weekes [Book Review]
Love Me is the debut novel by London based singer/poet Gemma Weekes. It chronicles the loves and battles of 20- something Eden Jean-Baptiste. Her life is marred by the twin torments of her obsession with the handsome, emotionally distant Zed and being abandoned at 11 years old by her capricious, self-centred mother Marie. Eden lives…
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Mike Tyson documentary: A revelation of a film
‘Tyson’ the documentary, directed by James Toback, a personal acquaintance of the man himself, is a surprisingly candid and moving look at the former heavyweight boxing champion of the world, once known as ‘Iron Mike’. Unfortunately it is on such limited release in London, with only 3 cinemas carrying the film and showings mostly after…
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Little Dragon at Jazz Café 13/03/09
I should have known I’d arrived in the future the minute ‘Little Dragon’ sailed in on a wave of fizzy, electronic, reverberations. But at that point I thought it was still the 13th of March 2009. Little did I know that the band had taken my sense of hearing – and to some extent my…
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FILM REVIEW: CADILLAC RECORDS
Somewhere within the desperation, excitement, misery and sheer exuberance of the musical/financial enterprise which was Chess Records lies the momentous turning point in the history of popular music when Chuck Berry was said to have ‘integrated the airwaves,’ literally turning thousands of white suburban teens into addicts of what was in the 1950’s still considered…
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Review: Cadillac Records
Somewhere within the desperation, excitement, misery and sheer exuberance of the musical/financial enterprise which was Chess Records lies the momentous turning point in the history of popular music when Chuck Berry was said to have ‘integrated the airwaves,’ literally turning thousands of white suburban teens into addicts of what was in the 1950’s still considered…
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REVIEW: THRILLER LIVE
Certain musicians should, nay, must have musicals written about them. Michael Jackson is undoubtedly one of these artists.
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Review: Notorious (The Movie)
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Review: Why I Don’t Hate White People [And Why You Should Love This Play]