Steve Bennett (I)
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings Page 75
Wilson Dixon: For the First Time. Again
They take things slow in Cripple Creek, Colorado. Real slow. In this rural backwater, all there is to do is languidly strum your guitar and ponder the mysteries of life, wallow in heartache and take another slug of bourbon.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 29th June 2018Robin Ince review
This is a celebration, not a diatribe, though it has all the unfocussed urgency of the latter. You'll emerge informed, educated - and probably validated too. Lord Reith would be happy.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 28th June 2018My Dad Wrote A Porno at the Royal Albert Hall review
It probably wasn't the edifying, erudite entertainment the buttoned-down Victorians had in mind when they constructed the Royal Albert Hall.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 22nd June 2018Eaten by Lions review
A great cast including Johnny Vegas and Asim Chaudhry bring a good dose of fun to the new British comedy Eaten By Lions, which premieres at the Edinburgh International Film Festival today. But director Jason Wingard can be clunky in his handling emotional moments - which lean towards over-sentimentalised cliché - and occasionally the comic ones, too.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st June 2018Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing preview
Once he was in The Fast Show, now he's in a very slow one.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th June 2018Review: Stanley - A Man Of Variety
Deliberately disconcerting, Stanley - Man Of Variety is also frustrating and unsatisfying, each scene a curious little sketch on its own, but amounting to very little.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 15th June 2018Matt Berry Interviews... review
The first episode of Matt Berry Interviews... draws on a 1974 chat with spoon-bender Uri Geller - "quite the Bojangles"
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 13th June 2018Flowers series 2 preview
It is certainly a one-of-a-kind programme that will stay with you.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 11th June 2018Doug Stanhope at Brixton Academy review
The easily offended should, of course, stay away, as Stanhope is a one-man trigger warning.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 8th June 2018Sunday Service With Ola - review
As befitting its title, Ola's Sunday Service appropriates the trappings of a religious ceremony, not least the order of service handed out to the 'congregation' which breaks the show down into sessions such as 'prayer box' and 'closing hymn'.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 5th June 2018