Weekly Culture Reviews Cover David Walliams Documentary and More
“It is a meticulous hour detailing a meticulous investigation,” Lucy Mangan wrote in The Guardian about David Walliams: Power and Silence.
The new ITVX documentary lays out the results of a three-year investigation by ITV and The Guardian into claims by multiple women of David Walliams’s predatory behaviour, according to The Guardian. The project follows an earlier report by The Guardian detailing accusations that Walliams preyed on young women for sex.
The cultural release schedule also brings major adaptations to screens and pages. Suzie Miller’s international stage hit arrives as a movie starring Cynthia Erivo as a lawyer whose career defending rape suspects is undermined by experience, playing in cinemas now.
“A blazingly fierce, effortlessly commanding central performance from Erivo, like something from classical drama, powers the movie,” Peter Bradshaw wrote in his review for The Guardian.
Television viewers also received new episodes of Disney+’s Rivals. The series follows the shock death of Monica, continuing a run that features Bella Maclean as O’Hara and Alex Hassell as Rupert Campbell-Black.
“It is still, taken in the round, a joy – filled with warmth, wit, intelligence and brilliant actors (plus a touching appearance by the woman without whom none of this would exist, Dame Jilly),” Mangan said in The Guardian.
On BBC iPlayer, mockumentarian Philomena Cunk returns in Cunk on Cinema, an unofficial guide to Hollywood written by Charlie Brooker and portrayed by Diane Morgan.
“If, like me, consider writing stupid jokes to be another of humanity’s greatest achievements, you’ll have no choice but to consider Cunk on Cinema a true work of art,” Rachel Aroesti wrote in The Guardian.
In publishing, Dustin Hoffman looks back at a life on and off camera in his book Look at Me.
Music releases feature U2’s Carnival de Luz album. Dave Simpson wrote in The Guardian that the music is impassioned and rejuvenated.
Additionally, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra performs Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem on a European tour running from November 14 to 19, following a performance at Coventry Cathedral, as reported by The Guardian.
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