RUSSELL TOVEY - No.1301

russelltovey: I've just bought a share at http://t.co/SfgvGocK  to support his adventure!! It's £20 and could be cool x

JosefValentino: @russelltovey Wow! Cheers Russell :)

russelltovey: @JosefValentino very welcome! Good luck! X

JosefValentino: @russelltovey What did you think of the video? I had to write the cards in mirror font - took hours..youtu.be/Qk_h-O8puY4 :)

russelltovey: @JosefValentino awesome! You got £20 out of me didn't ya? ;-) x

RonniePurple: @russelltovey have you been doing some children's Voiceover work? Mike The Knight?? :) I hate predictive text it keeps changing the words :(

russelltovey: @RonniePurple yes I play Squirt x

 

lunability: @ChrisFloto @russelltovey I'm trying to get him to tweet-sex me for a week now. No luck so far. :(

russelltovey: @lunability sex x

Hazzcooke: @russelltovey - just been to #Nandos for lunch with my dad; lush xx

russelltovey: @Hazzcooke innit x

criterion theatre piccadilly PRESENTS
'Stories Before Bedtime'

Stories Before Bedtime is a series of late-night readings designed to champion the love of reading and stories and to transport the audience back to when being read aloud to before bedtime was a fundamental part of one's daily life. Come and listen to classic short stories come to life in the mouths of some of this country's leading actors and actresses.

TWISTED LOVE

An 'anti-valentines' evening of unlikely love stories. Featuring Tom Hiddleston (Warhorse, Thor) reading Tennessee Williams' erotic short story The Kingdom of Earth, Niamh Cusack (Cause Celebre) reading Angela Carter's The Courtship of Mr Lyon, and Russell Tovey and Sarah Solemani (Him & Her) reading Ovid's advice to couples The Art of Love. Friday 10th February 2012 at 10.30 pm.

Sex With A Stranger

issyvb: @RussellTovey apologies in advance for my crap handwriting but this is your new costume rail! #sexwithastranger

Above: Issy  is one of the Tovey blog followers and she has contributed items before. This week Issy has sent Russ a picture of his new costume rack that he will be using during the run of “Sex With A Stranger” at Trafalgar Studios London. The play will run throughout February 2012. Issy is often able to send pics and updates from behind the stage at different theatres as she is a student in costume design. Russell doesn't seem to have to wear much!
NEWS ON THE PLAY

Jaime Winstone, Russell Tovey and Naomi Sheldon star in Stefan Golaszewski's drama, in which a young man out without his girlfriend, has a chance meeting with another girl, which presents a window of opportunity and a test of his resolve.

When: From Feb 1, Mon-Sat 7.45pm, mats Thu, Sat 3pm (press night Feb 6, 7pm, no mat perf Feb 2), ends Feb 25

Genre: Theatre - drama

Cost: approx £25

NB.To see a more in-depth article about the play "Sex With A Stranger" please return to post #1292 for the article "The Start Of Something Beautiful"

‘GRABBERS’ 
at sundance

There’s enough to like about this Irish film, a comedy with alien monsters in it, but not really a horror comedy, to give it a pass for its flaws. It’s a film I desperately wanted to see kick everything up a notch the whole way through because it has such a great premise. Lovecraftian, water-loving aliens crash into the waters off Erin Island and they come to land to lay eggs and eat the population. However they have an aversion to alcohol, which is a deadly weakness when attacking Irishmen.

Unfortunately, they only don’t like it when they ingest alcohol, which makes the townspeople safe from being sucked dry, but that doesn’t help them from just being killed by the variety of squishy tentacled bad boys attacking the little pub that they all decide to hide out in. Amidst all the craziness is a drunk cop in a love triangle with the teetotaller beautiful new guard and the local nerdy physician.

Having it be a plot point that your main characters have to be drunk in order to fight a monster is kind of genius, but the plot is erratic and the film seems to be more concerned with making sure we see connections to Jaws, Tremors and Critters than it is about telling its own story.

However, the cast (Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley and Russell Tovey) are all solid, the supporting characters genuinely fun and the CG (minus a few key exceptions) is surprisingly good. Don’t be surprised to catch this one on Netflix in a year’s time and have a fun time with it. With the premise and obvious technical skill I was just hoping the movie would have been more than decently fun.


4 out of 5