Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy in a cop-comedy sounds like a great idea in theory.

So, I saw this play that you should go and see.

What’s it about?

... See, the thing is, I can’t actually tell you.

What happens is, there’s an actor. And they’re told two things before they perform:

It really does my head in that so many women get off reading this bullshit.

If you think The Great Gatsby is another Baz Luhrmann spectacle...

...Well, you’d be right.

I went to The Glass Menagerie at the Selwyn Theatre knowing three things about the production: it’s a play by Tennessee Williams; theatre doyenne Elizabeth Hawthorne was cast in it; it was potentially about hope.

*Spoiler alert.

This bloody movie. People have been full of opinions on Les Misérables since the movie came out, and even more so since it became a Golden Globe winner in three categories and Academy Award contender.

Having caught a few episodes of this show years ago, made me instantly want to check the whole series out when it came up on my review list.

Having just seen a show about the sinking of the famous German navel ship The Bismarck, which of course had a major focus on the British Royal Navy, made me suddenly more interested in this DVD that focused entirely on that arm of the English military force.

Over the years the word Bismarck is one I had heard often, but if push came to shove, I could only hazard a guess that it had something to do with a naval ship, but other than that, I’d be guessing wildly what it really meant to the history books.