GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
The Real Charlie Chaplin
MARIA DUARTE recommends a documentary exploring the rags-to-riches transformation of Charlie Chaplin into a global superstar — a brilliant but troubled performer, with a dark side.
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Directed by James Spinney and Peter Middleton
AT ONE point hailed as the most famous person in the world, it is hard not to think of Charlie Chaplin without picturing his small hat, cane, boots and signature moustache.
“Chaplin makes the Tramp and the Tramp makes Chaplin,” narrates Pearl Mackie in James Spinney and Peter Middleton’s comprehensive and gripping documentary which aims to shed new light on who the real Charlie Chaplin is.
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