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Anne-Marie Duff 'blown away' by Evening Standard Film Award
A star-studded ceremony celebrated the best in British film at the Evening Standard Film Awards... more | Add your view
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
Three anarchic rockers, a misfit teen and a foul-mouthed politico were celebrated at the Evening Standard Film Awards. .. more | Add your view
A star-studded ceremony celebrated the best in British film at the Evening Standard Film Awards... more | Add your view
Clint Eastwood’s portrayal of Nelson Mandela backing South Africa’s bid to win the Rugby World Cup is simply too epic for its own good in Invictus... more | Add your review
Youth in Revolt presents us with a teenager desperate to do something about his virginity but unable to fathom how to accomplish the task... more | Add your review
Swap your pad in London for one in Paris, New York, Rome, Barcelona… the new way to
travel in 2010.
Tony is too funny to be compared with Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer, and it never labours the violence... more | Add your review
Astro Boy tries to fit in as flesh and blood, and possesses the goodness to win everyone in Metro City over.. more | Add your review
Irish film Holy Water hinges on four daft child-men who kidnap a van carrying a load of Viagra.. more | Add your review
The Island is a very Russian film, beautifully shot in monochrome colours in its snowy wasteland by Yury Nilokaev, and acted out with passionate realism.. more | Add your review
Max Ophuls, often underrated during his lifetime, is now seen as a brilliant film-maker capable of turning even novelettish material into something unforgettable.. more | Add your review
Anyone trying to make a modern version of Alice in Wonderland would be hard-pressed to imagine Danny Dyer as a taxi driver taking Alice on her adventures.. more | Add your review
The African-American underclass is brought to the screen in a painfully emotive tale of redemption full of stunning performances in Precious... more | Add your review
Director Lucy Bailey’s documentary about the epic struggle of two ousted farmers in Zimbabwe has been shortlisted for a Bafta... more | Add your view
As you would expect from a purveyor of slick, sharp fashions, Tom Ford’s first film A Single Man looks immaculate. .. more | Add your review
The great Russian author is the inspiration for two new films in his centenary year - including Oscar-nominated The Last Station - yet his links with the cinema stretch much further back, says David... more | Add your view
Edge of Darkness is faithful to Troy Kennedy Martin’s original screenplay in its dense plotting and largely sombre mood... more | Add your review
Anyone who, as a child, cried their way through Dumbo and adored Bambi and Snow White will welcome Disney’s The Princess and The Frog... more | Add your review
Breathless is as tough as teak and violent. But it’s certainly original, and Yang’s turn is little short of classic... more | Add your review
Adoration finds Atom Egoyan trying to shape a psychological thriller as commercially as he can and ending up at his most cryptic. .. more | Add your review
As an ex-steeplechase jockey (13 wins), Derek Malcolm enjoyed Liz Mermin’s affectionate documentary, Horses.. more | Add your review
Julian Temple’s messy, whimsical look at the rise and fall of the British pub rock band Dr Feelgood in Oil City Confidential packs a bigger punch than expected.. more | Add your review
Three ageing salarymen conspire to find husbands for their late friend’s widow and her daughter in Late Autumn.. more | Add your review
French director Jacques Audiard delivers a sharp shock in A Prophet, with his bold and uncompromising study of a modern prison society.. more | Add your review
Stephen Mangan, star of Green Wing and I’m Alan Partridge, is to host this year’s London Evening Standard British Film Awards... more | Add your view
