Brian Lo Sin Sjoe
@brian-losinsjoe.bsky.social
Head of the Stage Production Program @ the Academy of Theater & Dance, Amsterdam University of the Arts. Film, London & NY theatre lover. Go see a show! 🎭✨️
Web of billions: how Spider-Man became the most heroic franchise in Hollywood www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
Web of billions: how Spider-Man became the most heroic franchise in Hollywood
Tom Holland’s fourth outing as Peter Parker broke box office records but how did the web-slinger avoid growing superhero fatigue?
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Ted Lasso season four review – TV’s most wholesome football comedy is back www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Ted Lasso season four review – TV’s most wholesome football comedy is back
It looked like it was gone forever, but Jason Sudeikis’s hugely popular show returns with a premise that’s all twee nonsensicality. If you love messages of positivity and togetherness, you’ll be thril...
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Analogue evil: why today’s horror film-makers are obsessed with obsolete tech www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
Analogue evil: why today’s horror film-makers are obsessed with obsolete tech
From Obsession to Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a new wave of movies are ditching minimalism for retro settings
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Peter Gill: a theatrical visionary with an unsparing honesty www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/a...
Peter Gill: a theatrical visionary with an unsparing honesty
Gill’s dramas of divided class loyalties such as The York Realist had a clear-eyed precision matched by his rigorous work as a director
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The screen test for ‘Roman Holiday’ that changed AUDREY HEPBURN’s life & career. Audrey’s time in Arnhem during WW2 was hugely painful & you can see the pain in her eyes when she sits down & talks about this traumatic period in her life.
Sex, drugs and serial killers: inside Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis’s lurid TV thriller www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Sex, drugs and serial killers: inside Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis’s lurid TV thriller
The Shards brings the cocaine-addled teens of a 1980s prep school to life with a cast of newcomers and a heavy dose of sleaze
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“Oh my boys, my boys, we are at the end of an age! We live in a land of weather forecasts and breakfasts that set in, shat on by Tories, shovelled up by Labour.” WITHNAIL AND I (1987) Genius. #RichardGriffiths #RichardEGrant #PaulMcGann #BruceRobinson
LOVED Tao of Glass at Soho Place Theatre giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Tao of Glass review — Philip Glass inspires a piece of theatrical magic
Tao of Glass review — Philip Glass inspires a piece of theatrical magic
Phelim McDermott brings his playful, profound investigation into the power of music and theatre to London’s Soho Place
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For me, the best directed blockbuster of this summer is Spider-Man: Brand New Day. In these circles-within-circles Marvel CU movies, the filmmakers have to fight against emptiness and artifice. This one succeeds I think. It has action-spectacle, but knows about repose too.
No-one in British theatre had a finer ear for dialogue than Peter Gill (1939-2026). The most meticulous of directors, unfashionably loyal to talent not stardom, he was also a superbly compassionate writer whose charged, emotional plays charted gay sexuality and working-class lives like no other. RIP
Psycho (1960) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins.
Farewell, Peter Gill 🙏💔 Peter Gill, playwright who turned ordinary lives into extraordinary drama, dies aged 86 www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/a...
Peter Gill, playwright who turned ordinary lives into extraordinary drama, dies aged 86
Beginning his career as an actor, Gill went on to write plays including The York Realist as well as directing for the Royal Court and National Theatre
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“I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!” NETWORK (1976) In a decade littered with cinematic masterpieces, Paddy Chayefsky & Sidney Lumet’s movie is right up there at the top of the list. #PeterFinch
Nolan’s film could make The Odyssey the most sought-after book in the US www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
Nolan’s film could make The Odyssey the most sought-after book in the US
The nearly 2,700-year-old epic poem is flying off shelves at bookstores and libraries after the blockbuster film came out
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‘Never felt so scared’: the Cats obsessive who’s created a feral dance version of the purr-fect musical www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/a...
‘Never felt so scared’: the Cats obsessive who’s created a feral dance version of the purr-fect musical
Drew McOnie skipped school to audition for the original. It launched his astonishing career. Now he’s getting his claws into a no-pussyfooting version of the classic hit
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Mission Impossible (1996) Director: Brian De Palma
From 1963, Peter O'Toole - #BOTD - backstage during the production of "Hamlet" at the National Theatre in London. (Photo by Eve Arnold)
8-time Oscar winner and one of the greatest Costume Designers in Hollywood history — EDITH HEAD.
‘A towering piece of monoculture’: how The Odyssey discourse has dominated this summer www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
‘A towering piece of monoculture’: how The Odyssey discourse has dominated this summer
Christopher Nolan’s smash hit epic has continued to excite and enrage everyone from rightwingers to academics, an old-fashioned throwback to a uniting big-screen event
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Alien erotica, football coaching and making Meryl Streep cry: Ted Lasso’s new star Tanya Reynolds opens up www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Alien erotica, football coaching and making Meryl Streep cry: Ted Lasso’s new star Tanya Reynolds opens up
She lit up screens as Sex Education’s steamy sci-fi writer, wowed Streep in the West End and now she’s starring in the return of TV’s feelgood footie hit. The star talks about pretending to be sporty ...
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Gregg Araki on sex, film and queer resistance: ‘All the terrible shit in the world is because of sexual repression’ www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
Gregg Araki on sex, film and queer resistance: ‘All the terrible shit in the world is because of sexual repression’
As his 12th feature film, I Want Your Sex, hits theaters, the cult gay film-maker is as fired up as ever
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Salvador Dali and Man Ray by Carl van Vechten in Paris (1934)
Saw the final preview. And was completely captivated by its magical spell. Go! ✨️🙏 Tao of Glass review – stage magic as McDermott meditates on the minimalist master www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...
Tao of Glass review – stage magic as McDermott meditates on the minimalist master
This multifaceted and intensely personal homage to – and collaboration with – composer Philip Glass is a transcendent tapestry suffused with joy and wonder.
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One of the best 80's teen horror movies opened 39yrs ago today. THE LOST BOYS (1987)
PERSON OF THE DAY. 30 July 1958. Singer-songwriter Kate Bush was born in Bexleyheath, Kent. She was 1st woman to have a self-composed UK No 1 hit with Wuthering Heights. Bush was born on the 140th anniversary of the birth of the author who inspired her song, Emily Brontë.
Cleansed review – Sarah Kane’s visions of brutal torture resonate more intensely than ever www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...
Cleansed review – Sarah Kane’s visions of brutal torture resonate more intensely than ever
Rebecca Frecknall pulls off this notoriously difficult 1998 play, in which appalling cruelty and violence is balanced against human yearning for love and beauty
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Shakespeare and flamenco. A winning match. I had a blast! ❤️🎭 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ www.whatsonstage.com/news/loves-l...
Love’s Labour’s Lost at Shakespeare’s Globe – review
The production, marking Indiana Lown-Collins’ directorial debut at the venue, runs until 13 September
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