Reviews by Kevin Money
A Prophet [18]
Kevin Money
If you like those serious, muscular gangster films of the seventies, films like The Godfather and Mean Streets, you’ll love A Prophet. It’s one of the best gangster films in years – less ...
15 years ago
A Prophet [18]
Killforaseat Comedy Club @ the Bullingdon
Kevin Money
Last night's Kill for a Seat comedy was intense, exciting, and occasionally a little unpleasant. All the acts were men, none were especially young, and none seemed to have a great deal of love for ...
15 years ago
Killforaseat Comedy Club @ the Bullingdon
The Fiery Furnaces + Talk in Code + Inlight
Kevin Money
Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger, brother and sister, are the creative centre of The Fiery Furnaces. They come from New York, and have the appropriate unsmiling cool. Eleanor, the singer, has a kind ...
15 years ago
The Fiery Furnaces + Talk in Code + Inlight
Antichrist [18]
Kevin Money
Antichrist is a dark, dank, grisly nightmare of a film. It creates an intense feeling of pessimism and disquiet that sticks with you for days. Some people might be genuinely upset by parts of it. But ...
15 years ago
Antichrist [18]
In a Thousand Pieces
Kevin Money
For most of us, the sex trade is an unknown, shadowy concept, a rumour or an issue, something we might watch a Channel 4 documentary about, or gossip about – 'You know that flat above the chippy ...
16 years ago
In a Thousand Pieces
The Cripple of Inishmaan
Kevin Money
The Ireland of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan isn't somewhere you'd want to go. Although lots of people do. The play is about stories, rumours, and lies, and one story that keeps coming ...
16 years ago
The Cripple of Inishmaan
Free Beer Show - current season
Kevin Money
Reginald D Hunter shuffles on stage in a great big blue anorak, like someone from Oasis. It's hot in the Cellar Bar, so he’s soon sweating cobs. The sweat drips into his eyes, making them red and ...
16 years ago
Free Beer Show - current season
An Evening with Pentangle
Kevin Money
I suppose they were called Pentangle because there were five of them, but it also seems such a perfect hippy name for a band. It summons up the ideas of paganism and old English traditions that were ...
16 years ago
An Evening with Pentangle
Spring Awakening
Kevin Money
Spring Awakening is a strange, fascinating, but slightly confusing play. I left the theatre feeling unsure what it had all been about. The young actors from the Oxford University Dramatic Society ...
16 years ago
Spring Awakening
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days [15]
Kevin Money
In Caucescu-era Romania, abortion was illegal, not for religious reasons, but to boost the declining birthrate. As Four Months, Three Weeks, Two Days begins, we meet two young women busy preparing ...
17 years ago
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days [15]
I'm Not There [15]
Kevin Money
On a film course I attended recently, I discovered that if a film doesn't have a conventional plot, but is held together by a central theme, idea, or, as in the case of I'm Not There, subject, then ...
17 years ago
I'm Not There [15]
Lust, Caution [18]
Kevin Money
Lust, Caution is an intense drama set mainly in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. It follows the fortunes of a patriotic Chinese theatre group, who start their career by putting on plays to stir up ...
17 years ago
Lust, Caution [18]
American Gangster [18]
Kevin Money
American Gangster tells the true story of Frank Lucas, a 1970s New York crime boss and one of the most successful drug dealers of all time. His competitive advantage was that he flew in his heroin ...
17 years ago
American Gangster [18]
John Hegley and the Popticians with Inflatable Buddha
Kevin Money
John Hegley wears glasses. They are the thick-framed type that combine with his quiff to give him a slightly Morrissey-esque, Eighties-student look. As he gets older, this style seems to be morphing ...
17 years ago
John Hegley and the Popticians with Inflatable Buddha
Herge's Adventures Of Tintin
Kevin Money
Tintin, that peculiar little man-boy with the pointy blond quiff, is brought to life with real aplomb in this production at the Playhouse. It’s a very technically accomplished production, with ...
17 years ago
Herge's Adventures Of Tintin
Hamlet
Kevin Money
The courtyard of the Malmaison hotel, which, I imagine, was once the exercise yard of Oxford prison, becomes the setting for Creation Theatre’s new production of Hamlet. It’s an appropriate ...
17 years ago
Hamlet
Benjamin Zephaniah
Kevin Money
There's something irresistibly smile-inducing about Benjamin Zephaniah. He has a shy, gentle cheekiness that seems to appeal to adults and children equally. But there is another side to him, a ...
18 years ago
Benjamin Zephaniah
London to Brighton [18]
Kevin Money
London to Brighton starts as it means to go on – nasty, uncomfortable to watch, and very compelling. A woman who has been badly beaten and a terrified young girl hide out in a squalid lavatory - we ...
18 years ago
London to Brighton [18]
Fifth Circle [15]
Kevin Money
It’s tricky making films about the first world war. Our collective imagination doesn’t go much beyond the trenches, with stiff upper-lipped officers bearing up manfully in terrified anticipation ...
18 years ago
Fifth Circle [15]
Thatcher: The Musical
Kevin Money
Thatcher - The Musical runs through the entire Thatcher story in an energetic couple of hours. It doesn’t tell you anything you didn’t already know, but runs through all the obvious biographical ...
18 years ago
Thatcher: The Musical
Waiting for Godot
Kevin Money
Sir Peter Hall directed the first English production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in 1955. Back then, people were unsure how to respond to this strange, disturbing, funny play. It received ...
18 years ago
Waiting for Godot
Sweet And Lowdown - Jazz Night
Kevin Money
This new jazz night at QI is based around Ben Walker’s band ‘Peter Parker’, who play for most of the evening, and will be playing every week. Ben Walker, singer and keyboardist, clearly knows ...
18 years ago
Sweet And Lowdown - Jazz Night
Losing Louis
Kevin Money
Losing Louis is a bright, funny, well put-together play with some big, impressive performances. If the writer, Simon Mendes da Costa, chooses to entertain rather than to challenge or provoke, than ...
19 years ago
Losing Louis
Elusiver Desires
Kevin Money
I was a bit worried about what Elusiver Desires meant – I thought Elusiver might be some obscure Oxford college or society. But as it turns out, this play is about the elusive desires of a stalker, ...
19 years ago
Elusiver Desires
Caché (a.k.a. Hidden) [15]
Kevin Money
If you’ve never seen a Michael Haneke film, it’s probably best to start by telling you what not to expect. First of all don’t expect music, either background music or any proper songs. Don’t ...
19 years ago
Caché (a.k.a. Hidden) [15]
Make Him Cure Me
Kevin Money
Make Him Cure Me is an adaptation of Euripides’ Hippolytos, but this version is about a very 21st century preoccupation – illness, and specifically, viruses.
Theo, played by Satbir Singh, is a ...
19 years ago
Make Him Cure Me
Mammals
Kevin Money
Mammals is a really warm, funny, big-hearted play - a very enjoyable couple of hours at the theatre. It’s a domestic drama that stays just the right side of being cosy, giving fresh insights into ...
19 years ago
Mammals
