Reviews

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Code Name Kingfisher ★★★★★

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Code Name Kingfisher ★★★★★

Liv is a year-eight student in present-day UK. She's shy and uncertain and currently navigating between wanting to fit in and wanting to be herself. She's been tasked with creating a family tree, which leads to all sorts of problems when she realises her only port of call is her stern Bubbe…

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Adam Kay: Undoctored ★★★★

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Adam Kay: Undoctored ★★★★

Upon enetering the auditorium, we're faced with a big exit sign from the cover of Adam Kay's new book, Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients, as well as a large heart rate monitor flashing in bright showbiz lights. Beneath them stand three pill bottle podiums – one…

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Aaron Simmonds: Baby Steps ★★★

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Aaron Simmonds: Baby Steps ★★★

When Aaron Simmonds decided to do the Edinburgh Fringe this year, he had no clue what he was going to get up and say. But he knew one thing for sure: he was going to do it standing up. For those of you furrowing a brow right now, we should add that Simmonds has cerebral palsy. Since he…

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Ay Up, Hitler! ★★★★

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Ay Up, Hitler! ★★★★

At the bongs of Big Ben we hear a news reporter telling us that Hitler is dead. But “you shouldn't believe everything you hear on the radio. Ay up!” In the depths of rural Yorkshire, hides four very naughty boys – The Nazi Boys – Goebbels (Marcus Churchill), Himmler (Michael…

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Simon Brodkin: Xavier ★★★★★

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Simon Brodkin: Xavier ★★★★★

Character comic and original prankster Simon Brodkin is probably best known for playing cheeky chappy Lee Nelson, handing Theresa May her P45 and for dumping golf balls adorned with swastikas in front of Donald Trump to highlight his racist views. But he's also an exceptional…

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Oppenheimer ★★★

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Oppenheimer ★★★

Christopher Nolan’s new film Oppenheimer, filmed on 70mm especially for IMAX, is two movies in one, or perhaps even three, which explains the excessive length. The first part is the weakest, telling the story of J Robert Oppenheimer’s background as a physicist in the 1920s…