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12 September 2017
It (2017) review
Plenty of wit and terror in the cinema era of jump scares.
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6 September 2017
What goes on at... Creative Critics?
Christina Birt has worked for over 25 years developing arts and cultural learning and engagement opportunities for children and young people. Previously working for Royal Opera House education and Director for Creative Partnerships. Currently Director of Christina Birt Projects and education consultant to Arts Council England and Creative & Cultural Skills.
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1 September 2017
Joshua Lewis-Handley, Bronze, Silver and Gold achiever
Joshua takes us through his highly detailed Gold Arts Award portfolio wherein he produced the Alderbrook School's 'Spotlight' show all the while finding his feet with photography.
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22 August 2017
Reginald D Hunter: Some People vs Reginald D Hunter
A perfect hour of comedy to signify Hunter's first year back doing stand-up.
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22 August 2017
Molly Armitage, Explore and Bronze achiever
We spoke to a few students from Herts and Essex High School who've recently completely their Bronze awards about what they did and what they thought of it all.
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22 August 2017
Lilly Hall, Bronze and Explore achiever
We spoke to a few students from Herts and Essex High School who've recently completely their Bronze awards about what they did and what they thought of it all.
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22 August 2017
Lauren Coldicott, Explore and Bronze achiever
We spoke to a few students from Herts and Essex High School who've recently completely their Bronze awards about what they did and what they thought of it all.
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20 August 2017
Rik Carranza: I'm A Fan
With the best storytelling style I've seen this year, Carranza draws audiences in deep with a tale about his sci-fi and the agony of trying to fit in.
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19 August 2017
John-Luke Roberts: Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair! (All in Caps)
Coming out playing the character of Geoffrey Chaucer, Roberts took his strange humour to a new level.
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18 August 2017
Brendon Burns and Craig Quartermaine in Race Off
Perrier Award-winner, Burns, brings comparative newcomer, Quartermaine, to Edinburgh in an audacious critique of ethnic perceptions.
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17 August 2017
Performers
It's hard to align Irvine Welsh's talent and clout with this dull and needlessly damp exchange.
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17 August 2017
Markus Birdman's Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea
Starting his first foray into animation a bit late left more to be heard than seen.
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17 August 2017
The Andy Field Experience
Telling jokes that are so bad they're brilliant solidly for an hour makes for a completely novel and hilarious set.
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17 August 2017
Yianni Agisilaou: Pockets Of Equality
A show on the futility of gender roles without terribly convincing conviction against them.
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17 August 2017
Bec Hill: Out Of Order
Bec Hill's enormous positivity expands an aleatory stand up and comedy storytelling routine into something you can only leave smiling.
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17 August 2017
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows
Maggie's first foray into game show presenting got going in an instant and kept going with a relentless energy until the last second.
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16 August 2017
Kinsey Sicks: Things You Shouldn't Say
The Kinsey Sicks are world famous with a style as recognisable as you'd expect from their clout. But finding current parallels with the situation back when they formed 24 years ago forced them to add a new dynamic.
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16 August 2017
Micky Bartlett: Typical
Bartlett takes on issues of discrimination and intolerance with honourable conviction despite an ill choice of words.
Comment posted on 20 June 2018
Yeah it's massively problematic and really irks me. While the body and identity politics are worth heeding - specifically that ITV have defended their position by saying that physical appearance is NOT a criterion on which contestants, which is incredibly difficult to believe - my issue with it is more overarching and something that Iain Stirling, the voice presenter, has addressed somewhat when he said Love Island is seen to 'dumb down' the nation. As opposed to dumbing down, I think it serves as an overwhelming indictment of the superficiality of modernity. It takes love and sex and places it on an economistic platform without regard for how the men and women - who are wildly segregated, be it by choice or not - take the experience differently. It is, however, heartening (if that's the right word) to see the viewing public rally against the more problematic (at the very least) behaviour. Prime of which is throwing camaraderie out of the window for self-serving sex and ill excuses for emotional infatuation. I have watched this season to fathom out the appeal and I've moved away from my previous allegation that it's as close as you can get to porn on primetime television and towards the view that its issues are, ironically, more complex. There's also the argument that bad television has value, something you can switch your mind off to watch, but I think the spectatorial appeal around Love Island is much more sordid than that.