Monthly Archives: April 2008

'Three and Out' dying for a laugh

Posted on April 25, 2008 by admin

Mackenzie Crook and Colm Meaney make a deadly pact in ‘Three and Out’ By Ray Bennett LONDON — Suicide is played for laughs in Jonathan Gershfield’s odd little British film “Three and Out,” in which a subway train driver is … Continue reading →

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'Gone With the Wind' musical just blows

Posted on April 23, 2008 by admin

Darius Danesh as Rhett Butler and Jill Paice as Scarlett O’Hara in ‘Gone With the Wind’ By Ray Bennett LONDON (Hollywood Reporter) – Tomorrow is another day for Scarlett O’Hara but how long that will remain true for the new … Continue reading →

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This 'Judas' is profound and wildly entertaining

Posted on April 21, 2008 by admin

Douglas Henshall as Satan with Susan Lynch and Mark Lockyer in ‘The Last Days of Judas Iscariot’ at London’s Almeida Theatre thru May 10 Photo: Hugo Glendinning By Ray Bennett LONDON — An appeal in the case of the apostle … Continue reading →

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Ah, the pleasures of the forest

Posted on April 20, 2008 by admin

… the view from my bedroom on an April Sunday morning near the New Forest

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A 'Follies' show to make Sondheim proud

Posted on April 20, 2008 by admin

Cast of Ringwood’s production of Sondheim’s ‘Follies’ take their bows Staging a Stephen Sondheim musical gives pause to the best in the business so top marks to the Ringwood Musical & Dramatic Society in Hampshire for tackling “Follies” and carrying … Continue reading →

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'Flashbacks' a diversion for 007

Posted on April 20, 2008 by admin

Daniel Craig as washed-up star Joe Scot in Baillie Walsh’s ‘Flashbacks of a Fool’ By Ray Bennett LONDON — A burned-out movie star recalls the youthful trauma that drove him away from home in “Flashbacks of a Fool,” which despite … Continue reading →

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'Small Change,' dense and talky

Posted on April 18, 2008 by admin

Cast of Peter Gill’s ‘Small Change’ at the Donmar thru May 31 By Ray Bennett LONDON — Peter Gill’s play “Small Change,” a tale of two men’s boyhood friendship and their missed opportunity for love in a working-class area of … Continue reading →

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Apologies

Posted on April 18, 2008 by admin

The Cliff Edge has suffered some technical difficulties with no new posts for more than week. Apologies for that. It will be back up and running very shortly.

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Charlton Heston: a justified mind

Posted on April 6, 2008 by admin

Charlton Heston with his ‘Ben-Hur’ Oscar and Bette Davis in 1960 Charlton Heston, who has died aged 83, carved out an honorable place for himself in Hollywood history with his many epics and science-fiction pictures, but too often his sense … Continue reading →

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Above all, life

Posted on April 5, 2008 by admin
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