ANIMALIA | BOOK REVIEW
ANIMALIA Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, trans. Frank Wynne (Fitzcarraldo) Del Amo’s first work translated into English, Animalia follows the lives of a modest peasant family over the course of nearly a …
ANIMALIA Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, trans. Frank Wynne (Fitzcarraldo) Del Amo’s first work translated into English, Animalia follows the lives of a modest peasant family over the course of nearly a …
[wpdevart_youtube]2f1maBmQzH8[/wpdevart_youtube] GRETA ** Dir: Neil Jordan (15, 98 mins) A potboiler reminiscent of 80s and 90s psychological thrillers like The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, as Chloë Grace Moretz’s young …
SHE LIES IN WAIT Gytha Lodge (Michael Joseph) Six teenage friends go out camping during a heatwave in July 1983, with Aurora, the younger sister of one, tagging along. All …
[wpdevart_youtube]2p5pdWyyZoc&t=6s[/wpdevart_youtube] DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE *** Dir: S. Craig Zahler (18, 159 mins) An overlong but sporadically good bleak heist thriller from the director of the superb westerm Bone Tomahawk. This …
Octopus Soup **** New Theatre, Cardiff, Tue 9 Apr A fantastically frantic time at the theatre, Octopus Soup, written Jack Milner and Mark Stevenson, provides a bucketful of brilliant British …
LANNY Max Porter (Faber & Faber) Anyone who’s read Max Porter’s Grief Is The Thing With Feathers from 2015 will not forget it in a hurry. It’s one of the most …
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CARADOC EVANS: THE DEVIL IN EDEN John Harris (Seren Books) In his compelling new biography of the writer once dubbed the ‘best-hated man in Wales’, John Harris allows us to …
peeling ***** Blackwood Miner’s Institute, Fri 29 Mar Three chorus girls in crinolines bicker backstage while waiting for their cues – one knits, one applies lipstick and another makes soup, …
[wpdevart_youtube]WnFyfmjQSIg[/wpdevart_youtube] PET SEMATARY *** Dir: Kevin Kölsch & Dennis Widmyer (15, 100 mins) Stephen King’s unsettling horror gets another film outing, despite a perfectly creepy 1989 version from director Mary …
Camp Rock: The Musical ***** The Atrium, University of South Wales, Cardiff, Sun 10 Mar The first thing that hits me as I enter The Atrium Theatre in Cardiff University …
Ballet Cymru 2 – Made in Wales **** Fri 22 Mar, Dance House, Cardiff Ballet Cymru 2 is the pre-professional company of Ballet Cymru. The pre-professional course is only two years …