Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, review – a shambles to embarrass JK Rowling

The pandemic has wounded cinema in all sorts of ways, but the Fantastic Beasts series may prove to be its biggest victim to date. The Harry Potter…

Cabaret, review: Eddie Redmayne dazzles in the kill-for-a-ticket theatrical triumph of 2021

Where Cumming was brazenly sexual, there’s something abstract and parodic about Redmayne’s nonetheless consummately physical characterisation, as if conjured from a nightmare. He keeps pivoting during that…