Category Archives: Reviews

THEATRE REVIEW: Thomas Middleton’s ‘Women Beware Women’

Posted on May 9, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – Pretty much everyone dies at the end of Thomas Middleton’s steamy la dolce vita roundelay “Women Beware Women,” and in the National’s new production of the Jacobean classic, it happens in a magnificently designed tableau … Continue reading →

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THEATRE REVIEW: Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Real Thing’

Posted on May 9, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing,” an incisive and funny but warm examination of love, possessiveness and infidelity, cleaned up at the Tony Awards on its two Broadway outings in 1984 and 2000, and the Old … Continue reading →

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FILM REVIEW: ‘Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time’

Posted on May 9, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – Aimed squarely at youngsters and families, “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,” which had its world premiere in London on Sunday, is a handsome, fast-paced and innocuous adventure that’s easy to take but lacks … Continue reading →

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THEATRE REVIEW: Dion Boucicault’s ‘London Assurance’

Posted on April 24, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – First produced on the West End stage in 1841, Dublin-born playwright Dion Boucicault’s hilarious farce “London Assurance” is given its full measure in an uproarious production at the National Theatre that makes most modern comedies … Continue reading →

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FILM REVIEW: Ricky Gervais’s ‘Cemetery Junction’

Posted on April 16, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have somehow contrived to leave behind all the acute observation and wit of their TV hits, “The Office” and “Extras,” in “Cemetery Junction,” their first feature film as writers and … Continue reading →

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THEATRE REVIEW: Mark Haddon’s ‘Polar Bears’

Posted on April 9, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – British writer Mark Haddon, whose 2003 novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” told of a boy with Asperger syndrome, turns his attention to a young woman with bipolar disorder for his … Continue reading →

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KVIFF FILM REVIEW: Pawel Sala’s ‘Mother Teresa of Cats’

Posted on April 7, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett KARLOVY VARY, CZECH REPUBLIC – Polish filmmaker Pawel Sala’s “Mother Teresa of Cats” attempts to reveal why two sons murder their mother by tracking backwards from the killing. He loses sight of his objective, however, and appears … Continue reading →

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THEATRE REVIEW: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Love Never Dies’

Posted on March 15, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – Unlike lightning, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom” does strike twice. More than 23 years after “Phantom of the Opera” became a worldwide sensation, the British composer has delivered a sequel in “Love Never Dies” that is … Continue reading →

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THEATRE REVIEW: Jonathan Pryce in ‘The Caretaker’

Posted on March 11, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – Harold Pinter’s masterpiece “The Caretaker” mirrors life in that it’s not entirely clear what’s going on but the joy, pain and despair are real. Not that there’s much joy in the late Nobel Prize-winning playwright’s … Continue reading →

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BERLIN FILM REVIEW: ‘Boxhagener Platz’

Posted on February 17, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett BERLIN – Based on a popular German novel set in East Berlin in 1968, “Boxhaganer Platz” is filled with gentle humor as the folks in a busy neighborhood deal with the every day realities of Soviet rule. … Continue reading →

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