The Day After I'm Gone review - a subtle portrayal of a grieving father and his teenage daughter
An impressive debut feature from Israeli director Nimrod Eldar
Yoram (Menashe Noy), a vet in a Tel Aviv safari park, knows how to treat a sick jaguar (startling to see such a magnificent beast in an oxygen mask) but he has no idea how to comfort his troubled 17-year-old daughter Roni (a powerful Zohar Meidan). Both are mourning the death of Roni’s mother a year ago, but all they can offer each other is a tortured silence.
Banana Split review - likable if essentially timid romcom
On-the-shelf romcom deserves both a proper airing - and an epilogue
Is friendship mightier and more durable than sex? That's the proposition put forward by the engaging if ultimately cautious Banana Split, the Los Angeles-set romcom in which two teenagers become friends unbeknownst to the long-haired himbo boyfriend whom they have shared.
Album: Ezra Furman - Sex Education OST
Furman lays out tunes of teenage awkwardness while keeping cliché at bay
Netflix’s sweet but slightly strange drama Sex Education is already two series into its tale of teenage awkwardness in the face of growing up, with a third planned for when the Covid-19 plague is over. Yet it is only now that the soundtrack is being unleashed on the record-buying public.
I and You, Hampstead Theatre review - now streaming online, this YA play is oddly pertinent
Head to Instagram for a 2018 production with plenty of 2020 shutdown wisdom
The way that theatres and other arts institutions have leapt into action over the past week, providing a wealth of material online and new ways to connect with audiences, has been truly inspirational.
Onward review - do you believe in magic?
Pixar excels at brotherly love in a familiar but charm-filled family quest
Welcome to New Mushroomton: a fantasy land that’s forgotten itself. This is how we’re introduced to Pixar’s Onward, which is set in a Dungeons & Dragons daydream of suburbia. Director Dan Scanlon’s film is a tribute to his late father, but it begins with a separate elegy.
Be More Chill, The Other Palace review - more exhausting than enlightening
American theatre phenomenon pushes buttons aplenty to diminishing effect
This latest musical theatre exercise in “geek chic” has been an American phenomenon: a show propelled by social media that developed a rabid fan base taking it all the way to Broadway last year.
Sex Education, Series 2, Netflix review - the teen sex show we deserved
Happy Valentines: this humdrum holiday is the perfect occasion to stream the most affirming sex comedy in years
Dear Evan Hansen, Noël Coward Theatre review - this social outcast will steal your heart
Little Baby Jesus, Orange Tree Theatre review - an early play thrillingly alive for now
Arinzé Kene play from 2011 packs a renewed punch
Time has been not just kind but even crucial to Little Baby Jesus, the 2011 play from the multi-hyphenate talent Arinzé Kene, who since then has gone on become a major name on and offstage: the West End transfer of his self-penned Misty brought him dual Olivier nominations earlier this year as writer and actor, and he segued from that to playing the volatile son Biff in Death of a Salesman at the Young Vic.