1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (281+ words) Kinky boots are women's shoes in men's sizes for transgender people. This multi-award-winning musical very loudly and unapologetically celebrates gay culture and drag, full of respect and acceptance, championing equality and friendship. A family shoe factory in Northampton is facing…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (547+ words) Joyce Glasser reviews Project Hail Mary (March 20, 2026) Cert. 12A, 156 minutes A bedraggled man (Gosling) wakes up in a kind of strait jacket encased in a machine as though designed to keep him asleep for a long journey in space. He escapes…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1026+ words) This simply had to be the mother of all passenger cruiseliner upgrades, and it came completely out of the blue and was set in motion after just three telephone calls. The first call to my news PR office in the…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (704+ words) Joyce Glasser reviews Dead Man's Wire (March 20, 2026) Cert 15, 106 mins. In cinemas (and later on SKY TV) Instead of M.L., Tony is cautiously greeted by Hall's son Richard (Dacre Montgomery) who explains that his father is on vacation. Indignant, Tony removes from…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1041+ words) How might you feel if you sat down for the 1969 moon landing and then had 55 years of life flash before your eyes in just three hours (with a 20-minute breather in 2005?) Ecstatically nostalgic, uplifted, exhilarated, overwhelmed, amazed, bewildered, pummelled and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (759+ words) Joyce Glasser reviews Midwinter Break (March 20, 2026) Cert 12A, 90 mins. In cinemas Films aimed at older audiences are more than welcomed but cannot " as the filmmakers of last year's Goodbye, June and Eleanor the Great discovered " take this savvy audience for granted....

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (736+ words) Joyce Glasser reviews The Bride (March 6, 2026) Cert 15. 127 mins. In cinemas Gyllenhaal, who clearly aims to redress cinema's gender imbalance by giving women a voice, takes revenge on Whales' 1935 sequel The Bride of Frankenstein in which the eponymous bride, who appears…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (1073+ words) Northern Broadsides, founded in 1992 by the charismatic Barrie Rutter OBE, who stepped down as artistic director in 2018, prides itself on imbuing revered classics with a strong northern voice and down-to-earth excellence to create "bold, accessible" shows. The current bold choice…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (273+ words) Joyce Glasser reviews Exhibition on Screen: Turner & Constable (March 10, 2026) in cinemas After going on the run with Caravaggio from the papal palaces and back allies of Rome to glory and disgrace in Naples, Malta and Sicily, the intrepid Exhibition on…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (1102+ words) Through fictional characters this snapshot story recounts the birth of women's football, set in Sheffield in 1917. The original work of 2019 came not from the pen of a Yorkshireman, though, but that of an Italian, the revered, much translated Stefano Massini…...