No chance of forty winks here. Gone is the passive and dormant slumbering Princess — instead she zings with zest, life and energy. Matthew Bourne has done it again! And it works on a regional tour too. We firstly encounter Aurora as a magicked baby Princess. She’s portrayed as a…

Compressing the dramatic lives of the Pankhursts was always going to be challenging — even at two and a half hours, there are so many achievements and adventures left out. Such as Christobel’s preaching career (and political panelist/commentator in America), or conjecture that women should only be mothers at home…

Sherlocked ? Then prepare for a farce about friendships (and how we try to get rid of them!) Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat have collaborated with a Sherlock chum or two (Amanda Abbington) on what happens when social ‘friends’ suddenly turn up on your doorstep and do take you up…

This is an educationalist’s dream — for at the end of the movie *spoiler alert* students are actively engaged in learning!!! However, Dangerous Minds or Dead Poets Society this is not — it’s much more intriguing as it slowly burns away and presents its characters with a series of ethical…

Again I’m not sure there is an expressive enough vocabulary to give justice to the power, emotion and senses of Women Talking — but let’s give it a go… Eloquently directed by Sarah Polley, who is also a co-writer, the film covers women gathering together to discuss what to do…

Tom Cruise meets War of the Worlds, with a time travel twist. What a genius movie this is. Tom Cruise is at the top of his game in an alien invaded world. As Major William Cage, he has single-handedly masterminded a recruitment campaign featuring the ‘Angel of Verdun’ warrior Rita…

There aren’t really words to describe this film, but I’m going to give it a go. Definitely worth watching and definitely deserves its awards. It’s a celebration of struggling good fathers, struggling good men, those who are battling life-long addictions and the wreckage of savage childhoods and also of tweenagers…

Alexander The Great: The Making of a Myth, British Library London Was he something like this? Or maybe more like this?

The Royal Collection has many marvels in it — including the royal fascination with collecting beautiful art objects from Japan (or being gifted them or awkwardly handed across during political negotiations)… But thankfully there weren’t too many of these here — I wasn’t expecting stunning boxes patterned with powdered gold…