An awesome and ridiculous film that leaves you thrilled beyond the point of your natural endurance
2012
Theatre
The show has suddenly become quite wonderful, and the galvanising factor is the terrific stage debut of Melanie C
Blood Brothers
Music
The British pop music industry may be eating itself but if Muse are the pick of what it can offer the world in 2010 then British music is in rude health indeed
Muse
I was smitten by both Gilberts enormous luxuriant moustache and the intelligence and nuance of this highly entertaining play
I totally recommend Babbo to anyone who is looking for really good and traditional Italian food
Always been a fan but never seen them live. I was ecstatic to be part of this epic event. WOW!
London,
Los Olvidades
NFT, SE1
***
Mexico may have its political, economic and social difficulties but that hasn't lessened its sex appeal.
Like Gael García Bernal, the poster boy for his homeland's film industry (with his own strand in the NFT's current season, Mexican Cinema Now), Mexican cinema is masculine, bolshy, complex yet endearingly flawed - and exceptionally good-looking.
Since Alejandro González Iñárritu's Amores Perros snarled on to our screens in 2000, Mexico has been enjoying a golden period of unusual films.
Iñárritu and his cohorts have a good example to follow: Luis Buñuel's 1950 exercise in cinema vérité Los Olvidados (The Young And The Damned), a loose, fierce, fictionalisation about Mexico City street gangs.
Based on Buñuel's impressions of his adopted home as well as actual cases and shot for a pittance, Los Olvidados follows a gang of abandoned young in the city slums as they grind down the weakest of their number with Darwinian efficiency.
The international critics raved; the Mexicans walked out in outrage. The politics are, sadly, still relevant - but so is the adulation.
Details are correct at the time of publication - please check with venue before booking.
Tonight:
9°c
