Great time at Peacock Theatre (@Sadlers_Wells) with @RBDanceCompany_ last night. Here's my review over at @spyinthestalls

An intriguing and compelling evening at @TheOtherPalace watching An Oak Tree - here's our review over at @spyinthestalls

You can spend years carefully naming your idea. Then some bloke taking the mickey comes up with something better. Impressionists. Shakers. Soap operas. Big Bang. Posterity belongs to the leg-pullers. 🤡 ravengate.co.uk/posterity-be…

A great night out at @TheHenChickens thanks to @TomcarruthersC and friends. Here's our review for @spyinthestalls

Two women. One hit show. Millions of viewers. Cancelled. 😞 35 years after Thelma & Louise, does Hollywood still have a problem with women in the driving seat? Our take on Ride Or Die. ravengate.co.uk/ride-or-die-…

The West Wing pilot is trending on its 27th anniversary. And with good reason. It’s one of TV’s great opening episodes: smart, funny, and almost perfectly constructed. Almost. 😉 ravengate.co.uk/why-the-west…

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First we gave Big Tech the local newspaper ads. 📰 Then we gave it the readers. Then we let the algorithm decide what counted as local news. Now AI doesn’t even need to send us the click. ⤵️ How we gave away the local newspaper. 😢 ravengate.co.uk/we-gave-loca…

The Bayeux Tapestry has visual momentum, B-roll, a preparation montage and a climax that deliberately descends into visual chaos. Not cinema 1,000 years early, but evidence that the fundamentals of storytelling don't change much. Read our blog ⤵️ ravengate.co.uk/9-tricks-in-…

Billions had it all: Axe, Chuck, money, revenge, treachery. Then Season 5 happened. Mike Prince. Covid. Recycled plots. Wendy and Axe. And three minutes of Paul Giamatti making an omelette. Five ways a brilliant show went badly wrong. 👇 ravengate.co.uk/billions-was…

I thought cult leaders were master manipulators with irresistible charisma. Then I watched Trust Me: The False Prophet on @netflix. The most disturbing lesson? It's the followers that frightened me most. ⤵️ ravengate.co.uk/netflixs-tru…

There's some sheets in the airing cupboard and leftovers in the fridge. Don't touch your father's cheesecake, you know how he gets. Isn't this how it works?

David Hockney’s most famous painting always bothered me. Then I saw it. One man watches. The other doesn’t know he’s being watched. So I dimmed the lights. And suddenly it became an 80s slasher movie. ravengate.co.uk/the-dark-sec…