REVIEW: Double Feature, Hampstead (2024)

In Double Feature two stories about Hollywood figures are juxtaposed and played in parallel. They even eat a meal at the same dinner table each pair interacting only within their pair. They are Vincent Price (Jonathan Hyde), known for his distinctive horror and wonderfully sinister voice, nearing the end of his career in 1967/8 and a young English director 24 year old Michael Reeves (Rowan Polonski).

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Andrew Scott as Langley Collyer and David Dawson as Homer Collyer (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: The Dazzle, Found 111 (2015) from our archive and absolutely brilliant

Mesmerising. Andrew Scott is immediately gripping as Langley Collyer, a concert pianist with meticulous and exacting standards for the playing of music. In white tie and tails but with the bow tie undone, he rages about a note and the difference between identical and the same, which has the non musicians in the audience puzzled. His language is refined and esoteric, his personality extreme but fascinating. Our reaction is to be amused.

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