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.