Postcard from Marseille: the not so edgy city with its tourists, the rain and my plastic mac – but no elephants
By Harry Mottram: Go to Marseilles they said, it’s edgy and dangerous – and there’s no tourists they said and…
Rapscallion Magazine Film Review: a pianist’s critical note to Stalin brings an end to the dictator as he lies dying in his own urine
Film Review: The Death of Stalin: Putin and his mafia cronies banned the 2017 movie because they are paranoid and…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE BOOK REVIEW: sex, secrets and violence – and a coming of age neo-Gothic mystery set within the shadow of Franco’s Spain in The Shadow of the Wind by Carlo Ruiz Zafon
By harrymottram DEC 5, 2020 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Teenager Daniel Sempere is the beneficiary…
Rapscallion Magazine Theatre Review: men, money and microphones in a brilliantly funny and affectionate feminist deconstruction of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Review: Pride and Prejudice (*sort of). Bristol Old Vic It’s a truth universally acknowledged, that a single novel by Jane…
Rapscallion Magazine: latest issue for May 2023
Welcome to the latest issue of my occasional magazine that essentially ties up the various features and reviews that I’ve…
Rapscallion Magazine Film Review: it’s all about Evelyn – Everything Everywhere All At Once is confusing, bizarre, violent and a mother and daughter relationship movie
There’s a scene where Evelyn’s daughter Joy Wang enters a room and her father asks, ‘What are you doing here?’…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: What Ho, Jeeves – a comic send up of the idle rich maybe, a funny novel set in Edwardian England yes – but also a completeness of a comic style rarely achieved
Right Ho, Jeeves. By PG Wodehouse. Book review. Pip, pip. Tip top. And midnight cycle rides. What Ho, Jeeves, is…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: Beaten, brainwashed and coached to play football by Catholic nuns – God, sins and Neolithic hunters – the confused concerns of a school boy
By Harry Mottram: Until I visited a museum where there was a skeleton of a Neolithic man my faith in…
Rapscallion Book Review: Sue Townsend’s diary-style comic novel of the unreliable narrator Adrian Mole is a classic (and a musical version is set for Bath this week)
MARCH 18, 2023 Book Review. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Age 13 3/4Sue Townsend’s comic 1982 fictional diary style…
Rapscallion Theatre Review: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School’s superb production of This House revives the vibes of brown 1970s suits (although there is one thing missing in Parliament’s dodgy back room deals in this play)
Review: This House at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol Order! Order! A bewigged and authoritative Louise O’Dowd as a very young-looking…