Tag: Tom Hooper

Cats.

PSA: I’m a Cats apologist. As a child I would watch the VHS of the theatre production on repeat. I knew every jellicle cat’s name. The beauty of the musical, despite being an 80s coke-fuelled fever-dream of a production, is in the performers’ athleticism, the striking stage make-up and the extraordinary junkyard stage design. All…

December 21, 2019
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It’s been four days since I left the cinema after seeing Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables at the IMAX cinema in Liverpool. I am very fortunate to have watched the theatre production in London’s West End only three months prior. The storyline was very fresh in my mind and I was excited to see how the film differed and compared to…

January 15, 2013

Cats.