Reviews by Charlie McGinty
Nine Below Zero, Charlie Austen
Charlie McGinty
In 1980, Nine Below Zero (NBZ) released their first record Live At The Marquee from which they quickly became one of the most popular British Rhythm and Blues acts of the time. Back in the day that ...
6 years ago
Nine Below Zero, Charlie Austen
Avengers: Infinity War [12A]
Charlie McGinty
I came into this movie having thoroughly enjoyed Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok last year and being a fan of many of the offerings from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (the ‘MCU’) since Iron Man ...
6 years ago
Avengers: Infinity War [12A]
Dara O'Briain - Voice Of Reason
Charlie McGinty
Dara O Briain brought his Voice of Reason show for a two night stint at the New Theatre – one of his favourite rooms, Dara claims, endearing himself to a full house.
He’s one of the most ...
6 years ago
Dara O'Briain - Voice Of Reason
Let Me Go [15]
Charlie McGinty
Based upon the true life memoir of Helga Schneider, Let Me Go explores the effect of abandonment and its rippling impact on family relationships; in this instance between four generations of women in ...
7 years ago
Let Me Go [15]
The Party [15]
Charlie McGinty
They’re back! Thank goodness and very nicely decorated and refurbished too. I won’t spoil what they’ve been up to, but do go and see for yourself what the lovely people at the Phoenix have gone ...
7 years ago
The Party [15]
The Wipers Times
Charlie McGinty
In 1916, Captain Fred Roberts (James Dutton) and Lieutenant Jack Pearson (George Kemp) were leading a group of soldiers from the 24th Division of the Sherwood Foresters, engineers and miners shoring ...
7 years ago
The Wipers Times
Jimmy Carr: The Best Of, Ultimate, Gold, Greatest Hits Tour
Charlie McGinty
Nurses, teachers, students, wheelchair users, mothers and a list too long to reproduce are fair gain in the eyes of Jimmy Carr. No minority is spared but who cares, we all laugh anyway! "I have ...
7 years ago
Jimmy Carr: The Best Of, Ultimate, Gold, Greatest Hits Tour
T2: Trainspotting [18]
Charlie McGinty
The release of this sibling sequel to the original
Trainspotting (1996) 20 years on reunites us with familiar associates Renton, Spud, Begbie and Sick Boy. All are older, but... any wiser? ...
7 years ago
T2: Trainspotting [18]
Simon Munnery: Standing Still
Charlie McGinty
Simon Munnery is touring his stand-up show having just completed his 30th Edinburgh Festival season (yup, does he get a clock?). The flyers promise much; and with Munnery you can look forward to ...
7 years ago
Simon Munnery: Standing Still
Nocturnal Animals [15]
Charlie McGinty
It's been 7 years since Tom Ford's directorial debut with the poised and contained A Single Man; now Tom has returned as director, producer, screenwriter and 'chief cook' of Nocturnal Animals, his ...
7 years ago
Nocturnal Animals [15]
I, Daniel Blake [15]
Charlie McGinty
You know with a Ken Loach credit that you will be challenged and his observations are often so much stronger than mere convoluted or contrived fictions.
Daniel Blake (David John) is middle-aged ...
8 years ago
I, Daniel Blake [15]
Hunt for the Wilderpeople [12A]
Charlie McGinty
When troubled and hard to place foster kid Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison) is dropped off by Child Welfare at a remote rundown farm on the edge of the bush, he isn't too impressed and attempts various ...
8 years ago
Hunt for the Wilderpeople [12A]
Anthropoid [15]
Charlie McGinty
Set in May 1942, Czech and Slovak secret agents Jan Kubis (Jamie Dornan) and Jozef Gabcik (Cillian Murphy) are sent to lead a team whose mission is to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich (Operation ...
8 years ago
Anthropoid [15]
Much Ado About Nothing
Charlie McGinty
There is something quintessential to the English summer when it comes to outdoor Shakespearean production; risking weather, chills and other less elemental interferences, (at one point a drone ...
8 years ago
Much Ado About Nothing
Sing Street [12A]
Charlie McGinty
Sing Street is a delightful coming of age musical comedy drama from John Carney (Once, Begin Again). At first sight it's well-trodden and clichéd ground; another work representing kids with ...
8 years ago
Sing Street [12A]
The Complete Deaths
Charlie McGinty
Having had the benefit of reviewing the excellent Shakespeare's Dead exhibition at the Weston Library, it seemed more than fortuitous that those clever people at Spymonkey had condensed and adapted ...
8 years ago
The Complete Deaths
Queueue: A Coffee Shop Musical
Charlie McGinty
A sold out show, a buzz of excitement and anticipation as the café at Modern Art Oxford fills. The 8 cast members are sitting amongst the audience chatting. Director Scott Bolohan is on the door ...
8 years ago
Queueue: A Coffee Shop Musical
Glass Animals
Charlie McGinty
It's quite a confined and intimate space at the Bullingdon, with its capacity of 250. So after a couple of years on the road and 6 months in the studio Oxford 4 piece, Glass Animals were visibly ...
8 years ago
Glass Animals
Road to the Sky [15]
Charlie McGinty
Set in the Yunnan province of south west China in 1938, war is raging with Japan and not going well. With supply lines cut China's only hope of survival is to build a new supply road as a lifeline ...
8 years ago
Road to the Sky [15]
Road Duster [15]
Charlie McGinty
Road Duster is the film adaptation of J. Kessels: the Novel, the cult Dutch literary work by P.F. Thomése. Frans (Fedja van Huët) is a crime writer in the middle of a creative block, struggling to ...
8 years ago
Road Duster [15]
For All Eyes Always [15]
Charlie McGinty
To win back the confidence of the American public, the CIA creates a fully transparent reality show that goes undercover with operatives around the globe.
The set up here sees CIA operative, ...
8 years ago
For All Eyes Always [15]
Two Down [15]
Charlie McGinty
The first Oxford International Film Festival has opened its features programme with Two Down, a darkly comedic take of a bungled contract killing and its aftermath.
The would be 'killer' is John ...
8 years ago
Two Down [15]
The Encounter
Charlie McGinty
Space may not be the final or only frontier! This imaginative and immersive production by Complicite and Simon McBurney introduces us to the fascinating story of Loren McIntyre, an American photo ...
8 years ago
The Encounter
Mustang [15]
Charlie McGinty
School's out! It's a hot day, so you, your siblings and schoolmates head down to the beach to cool off in the sea, muck about and amble home, you even scrump some apples from an orchard and get into ...
8 years ago
Mustang [15]
Everybody Wants Some! [15]
Charlie McGinty
Richard Linklater's latest film is a part auto-biographical tale that takes us back to the 1980s in the company of a group of testosterone-fuelled undergraduate baseball players billeted in their own ...
8 years ago
Everybody Wants Some! [15]
Shakespeare's Dead
Charlie McGinty
Running now until 18
th September 2016, the Weston Library is hosting a new exhibition on all things macabre as part of the quatercentenary celebrations of the death of William Shakespeare. It's ...
8 years ago
Shakespeare's Dead
Son of Saul [15]
Charlie McGinty
László Nemes has made a stunning directorial debut with his film Son of Saul, already winning the Grand Prix award at Cannes and the best foreign film at the Oscars.
Saul Ausländer, played by ...
8 years ago
Son of Saul [15]
Demolition [15]
Charlie McGinty
Demolition may be marmite for its viewers. A talented ensemble examine grief and loss and the way it might strip us back to our truest core feelings, in an unconventional way.
To the unconvinced, ...
8 years ago
Demolition [15]
Ballyturk
Charlie McGinty
A couple of years ago I found myself standing at the Black Box Theatre in Galway, shouting, applauding and cheering, wholly unsure what I'd experienced, but utterly convinced of its impact. So to ...
8 years ago
Ballyturk
