Precious is a new-style weepie but one that is much more bracing than depressing
Precious
Theatre
Ian McKellen is captivating throughout. He delights in the play’s gallows humour, yet is also maudlin and poignant
Waiting for Godot
Theatre
Slight quibbles notwithstanding, this will set the West End’s stock riding high
Enron
Utterly, utterly brilliant. You really are in for a treat
Though 'Trilogy' has won rave reviews, I personally found myself exasperated after about an hour
We went on a quiet sunday evening and the food was excellent, but the experience let down by the service and ambiance
London,
09.02.10
A new book on the great leader based on documents hidden for years delves deeper into his family life than any other — and comes up with some...
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02.02.10
As you would expect from a purveyor of slick, sharp fashions, Tom Ford’s first film A Single Man looks immaculate.
27.01.10
Chef Tristan Welch, who trained with Gordon Ramsay, has created a table for two in the centre of his restaurant kitchen — inches from the cookers
21.01.10
Why the Brompton inventor's design for a revolutionary folding bicycle 35 years ago is a capital triumph
14.01.10
Though the music and dialogue in Every Good Boy Deserves Favour are sophisticated and pleasing, they don't always mesh
13.01.10
Festive excess and January blues are enough to make most of us feel seedy. Nick Curtis tries to measure — and then limit — the damage
13.01.10
Feel Good Breakfast with hamam treatment and gym session, plus express body massage at the spanking new So Spa
06.01.10
Lesley Manville is about to return to the Old Vic stage and she has another Mike Leigh film on the horizon. At last, she says, she is beginning to get...
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22.12.09
Richard Wilson talks about making his Shakespearean debut at 73 — and why old age is for cissies.
15.12.09
Donning a bonnet for the Cranford Christmas special is, says Jodie Whittaker, a leading light of the next generation, just a little daunting.
15.12.09
Gorblimey. Guy Ritchie's larky go at Britain's greatest detective Sherlock Holmes really isn't bad.
11.12.09
James Cameron has raised the visual bar by several notches, and has produced a stirring, spectacular story in Avatar.
08.12.09
Leo Leigh may follow in father Mike's footsteps as a film-maker but his passion, he says, is for portraying real people.
24.11.09
Blind actor Tim Gebbels stars in a new Channel 4 comedy that challenges the stereotypes of disabled people
23.11.09
Jedward are the most obvious proponents of the sticky-uppy look - but the style crosses boundaries of age, gender, sexuality and taste, says Nick...
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23.11.09
As he wins the outstanding newcomer prize at the Evening Standard theatre awards for his role as Othello, Lenny Henry has come a long way from black...
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16.11.09
A Hounslow boy, trained as a doctor, he dreamed of R&B stardom. Now Jay Sean’s US No 1 hit has sold two million copies. X Factor wannabes take note.
13.11.09
Of all the blockbusters due in December, James Cameron's 3D sci-fi epic Avatar will be subject to the beadiest scrutiny
12.11.09
With the hit TV cookery show about to go live at Olympia, we put five chefs through the 30-minute Invention test. Nick Curtis tucks in
12.11.09
The Evening Standard asked five of those involved to undertake the successful TV programme's Invention Challenge, to book a dish in 30 minutes from a...
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