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Theatre www.broadwayworld.com/author/Gary-Naylor and theartsdesk.com/users/gary-naylor Films https://letterboxd.com/garynaylor999/ Cricket www.theguardian.com/profile/gary-naylor Football https://open.spotify.com/show/2TDgsixzCFC4cfAPdIU0V5

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A ★★★★★ review of EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) I didn't much care for Baz Luhmann's Elvis biopic - too much Baz, and, let's be honest, a little Baz goes a long way. My heart sank when the opening titles also screamed BAZ!!!, but, hard though it is...

Amazing - boxd.it/dphenB

05.03.2026 23:08 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A ★★½ review of Sound of Falling (2025) What do you get if you cross The Tin Drum, The Sacrifice and The White Ribbon? Something like these slow, occassionally beautiful, often grim, tales of four girls living at different times in the same...

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04.03.2026 18:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A ★ review of Midwinter Break (2026) Join the dots story of two retirees (she has a secret vow, he has a secret drinking problem) who go to Amsterdam for a few days where long suppressed tensions boil over. Ciarán Hinds and Lesley Manvil...

Some British films are very hard to watch.

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04.03.2026 18:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A ★★★ review of The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) This is a tough watch, not because it makes demands on concentration or is wilfully obscure, as some arthouse movies can be, but it is so 'other' for an Englishman. Oscar Wilde wrote, "We have really ...

Safe to say that George Michael's view that "Sex is natural, sex is good / Not everybody does it, but everybody should" would not get him very far in The Shakers.

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04.03.2026 18:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A ★★★★ review of Hail, Caesar! (2016) Feels somewhere between Robert Altman's The Player and Damien Chazelle's Babylon, but Hollywood is hardly short of films about Hollywood. The Coen Brothers' satire follows 36 hours in the life of Eddi...

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03.03.2026 13:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A ★★★★★ review of Orwell: 2+2=5 (2025) Terrifying. I was always able to be slightly superior about ideologues like Orwell, who construct art around an unshakeable political principle. As with Ayn Rand, what emerges is, more often than not,...

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Very much worth a watch @mrjamesob.bsky.social.

02.03.2026 19:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nothing is debunked more swiftly than the old reputation that possibly still clings to the Glasgow accent. Completely obliterated by contact with so many kind and polite people.

02.03.2026 13:06 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

But no indirect free kicks for obstruction?

01.03.2026 18:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A ★★★½ review of Late Fame (2025) I've enjoyed 15 seconds of fame myself and it's seductive. You try to bat the glow of recognition away, but it's effortful to do so and you know your polite and bashful words carry little conviction. ...

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28.02.2026 21:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A ★★★★½ review of Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) It's hard to get portmanteau films right. One segment is always the weakest and drags down the movie as a whole; another doesn't seem to fit; and another comprises performances that just aren't as goo...

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28.02.2026 21:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A ★★★★★ review of The Battle of Algiers (1966) Like Strangelove, I had avoided watching this movie as I did not believe that it could not live up to its reputation. Like Strangelove, it exceeded it. Tracking the popular uprising and guerilla warfa...

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28.02.2026 09:26 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A ★★★★½ review of Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026) Five years ago, in 2021, the Covid stalks the land - the masks give it away. But on a bright quiet May morning, the day of Eid al-Fitr, in a diverse Glasgow suburb of Pollokshields, a more visible thr...

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27.02.2026 18:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Die Nasty.

Hit Me Baby One More Time.

Second Hands Out!

27.02.2026 16:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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New British Drama in 15 Scenes - Aleks Sierz News about my latest book about contemporary British theatre, new writing and beyond New British Drama in 15 Scenes: Adventures in Theatre Criticism

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22.02.2026 21:22 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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'Every billet-doux came with a hefty side order of billet-don’t' DEAR LIAR #JermynStreetTheatre - Shaw on a sure thing?
No sex please, we're British (and Irish): @garynaylor85.bsky.social ponders (new, for him) concepts of #GeorgeBernardShaw and the Shavian www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/dear...

22.02.2026 19:51 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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New British Drama in 15 Scenes - Aleks Sierz News about my latest book about contemporary British theatre, new writing and beyond New British Drama in 15 Scenes: Adventures in Theatre Criticism

www.sierz.co.uk/writings/new...

22.02.2026 13:23 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Well worth watching.

22.02.2026 00:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A flawed but important play.

20.02.2026 23:15 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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In this week’s episode @garynaylor85.bsky.social and debutant John Mackay revisit Scotland’s opening match against the late Sepp Piontek’s glorious Danes. Also, Uruguay choose violence, France & the USSR run out of energy in the sun and there’s an underrated Diego goal.

In the usual places!

20.02.2026 12:59 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Leeds Playhouse Innovative take on familiar comedy proves hit and miss as lovers and fairies fight

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19.02.2026 16:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Review: SPANISH ORANGES starring Maryam d'Abo, Playground Theatre #MeToo and cancel culture needs a new angle sadly lacking in humdrum new play

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17.02.2026 14:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fancy being as good as Robert Duvall was The Godfather Parts One and Two and not even being best supporting actor in the movies never mind the years.

Fine actor and made an unforgettable character in Lt Col Kilgore - once viewed as satire...

16.02.2026 23:16 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A ★★★½ review of Wuthering Heights (2026) I was going to say that I approached this movie blind - I hadn't read reviews, I'd only half-seen a trailer, I'd read no interviews and, crucially (or so I thought) I'd not read the book nor seen prev...

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14.02.2026 23:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A ★★★½ review of Wuthering Heights (2026) I was going to say that I approached this movie blind - I hadn't read reviews, I'd only half-seen a trailer, I'd read no interviews and, crucially (or so I thought) I'd not read the book nor seen prev...

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14.02.2026 23:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Review: AFTER MISS JULIE, Park Theatre Compelling and powerful, this new production hits home

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14.02.2026 12:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A ★★★★½ review of Nouvelle Vague (2025) A Who's Who of post-war French cinema. C'est vrai! A vast cast of legendary Cahiers du Cinéma habitués get their own freezeframe and tag in Richard Linklater's love letter to À bout de souffle - names...

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13.02.2026 23:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Review: I'M SORRY PRIME MINISTER starring Griff Rhys Jones, Apollo Theatre The two old favourites are no longer in Whitehall, but need each other just as much

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13.02.2026 13:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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★★★★ War and peace on the border: Award-winning new play Donbas, Theatre503, pins its blue and yellow colours to the mast writes @garynaylor85.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/donb...

13.02.2026 09:43 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Don't worry. Once you're retired and can travel on off-peak trains with a senior railcard, it'll be much more affordable to er... go to work.

11.02.2026 19:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Alan Hawkshaw, Grandstand ( UK- TV Theme )
Alan Hawkshaw, Grandstand ( UK- TV Theme ) YouTube video by absolutpat

This is fab! youtu.be/7sOKuzo8nSY?...

10.02.2026 22:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0