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Actor, Director, Playwright | Theatre, Film & TV Reviews | Marketing & Film Club Curator @taratheatre.bsky.social | he/him #BlackLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter
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#NowWatching Il Trovatore @ Royal Ballet & Opera

let me shake up your algorithm a playlist of songs entirely brand new to me from artists I’d never heard before — new work + new vibes to challenge + inspire alt-rock, disco and experimental techno to rewire your brain 🤪 Apple Music & Spotify links 🎧 linktr.ee/frederickzennor

unlike quite possibly everyone else, I find a sanctity and security in the big light

#NowWatching Mickey 17 @curzoncinemas.bsky.social

need some gardening tips

nothing quite like stomping through London to a new Lady Gaga album, nature is healing

mayhem and chill?

#NowWatching Daredevil: Born Again: Season 1

deafening, silent horror Bungalow is a taut familial drama putting the insidious realities of domestic abuse under a microscope theatre examining the normalisation and denial of the damage embedded in the smallest of words and gestures, all mounting to catastrophic devastation

#NowWatching Bungalow @theatre503.bsky.social

so you caught me at golden hour

#NowWatching Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

#NowWatching Το Καλοκαίρι της Κάρμεν (The Summer with Carmen) @curzoncinemas.bsky.social

more of the same, and in turn the truest form of the sequel Inside Out 2 expands its world but not its narrative ambition as it homages all the key beats of the first film without presenting anything new where other Pixar sequels push the envelope, this plays it oddly safe boxd.it/8YHtjh

#NowWatching Inside Out 2

cute but lacking? the textured complexity of the worldbuilding in Inside Out is impressively considered and gorgeously realised through wildly creative animation but it really is a standardised copy paste Pixar road movie does everyone just really like this for the hot dad? boxd.it/8YC0jH

#NowWatching Inside Out

beautifully shot, horrendously bleak The Girl with the Needle is well made but cor is it basically trauma porn like most serial killer narratives it’s relentless, exploitative + tastelessly indulgent in its portrayal of child murderer Dagmar Overbye shocked it got an Oscar nom boxd.it/8YiAs1

colossally insular a staggering performance centres a hefty, intensely personal look at Brazil’s military dictatorship through the 1970s as one family have their life upended + disoriented, I’m Still Here becomes far more than a story of perseverance in the face of the unknown boxd.it/8YfWZP

#NowWatching The Girl with the Needle

yellow sticker hunting in M&S should be a competitive sport

would u believe me if I said it was leg day

Marvel is in dire, desperate need of new leadership — and it’s urgent Captain America: Brave New World is nonsensical, unwatchable and profoundly insulting to Anthony Mackie who deserves so much more no-one on god’s green earth wanted a sequel to The Incredible Hulk, wtf boxd.it/8XwW79

#NowWatching Ainda Estou Aqui  (I’m Still Here) @curzoncinemas.bsky.social

inoffensive if uninspired Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is more of a “we got the budget, let’s get the team back together and have fun” than an actual film which is okay! but a shame when flat, generic slop built on ctrl+c ctrl+v platitudes make up so much of the runtime boxd.it/8WnURd

bonkers goofy queer satirical nonsense of the HIGHEST order Kaboom is flat out ridiculous, and the film knows it — Gregg Araki scathingly yet lovingly homages the late 90s/early 00s teen drama with a conspiracy fuelled sex obsessed apocalypse this is a WILD ride boxd.it/8VzvfN

a lamentation on absence A Ghost Story is a photographic work of uninhabited spaces — physical, psychological and spiritual it’s a stark, minimal and highly effective execution of mood, atmosphere and a cataclysmic weight of despair haunting in all its painful spectral beauty boxd.it/8UZC8R

“We were waiting for something to happen because we wanted to take a picture of it.” oooooh what a tricky film, especially when it’s so SO close to hitting the mark and saying something instead September 5 coyly opts for apoliticism, reinforcing the ongoing Palestinian genocide boxd.it/8UYEI1

“Why are you so angry? Why can’t you enjoy life?” a difficult film to watch, one overwhelming with a uniquely British suburban brutality and aggression Hard Truths depicts one woman’s hurricane of self-hatred, a volatile series of vignettes causing complete domestic carnage boxd.it/8UVWoH