Is this the year Brits sweep the Oscars?
FilmAll hopes are on Kate Winslet, Danny Boyle and Sally Hawkins doing at the Academy Awards what Team GB did at the Olympics, says Mike Goodridge...
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Everything about it looks as if it has delved deep into the clichés of another age
Australia
Theatre
Small is better and sometimes beautiful when it comes to this scaled-down, intimate version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical
Sunset Boulevard
Restaurants
Canteen looks so much the part. The owners stress that they take design as seriously as they do food
Canteen Baker Street
Without doubt THE worst film I can remember seeing in many a year
The entire cast give outstanding performances that had the audience in tears of sorrow and laughter
It is sheer joy from start to finish. Especially the dancing skeletons

All hopes are on Kate Winslet, Danny Boyle and Sally Hawkins doing at the Academy Awards what Team GB did at the Olympics, says Mike Goodridge...
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Alan Ayckbourn's Woman in Mind is transferring to the West End and Take a View is coming to The National Theatre... more | Add your view
Between The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, by young theatre company 1927, avoids neat boxes and succeeds by being hugely entertaining... more | Add your review
Violinist Sulki Yu displayed wit and a kind of fervent grace in unfeasibly difficult music at the Purcell Room... more | Add your review

She's been dropping hints for months, but now Kate Moss has given her clearest indication yet that having another child is her top resolution... more

Cirque du Soleil comes to town, Hit Me! The Life and Times of Ian Dury opens and Slumdog Millionaire is on the big screen... more | Add your view
We hear Lily Allen's new fella Jay Jopling was worried that their romance could be tricky - as he is close pals with her dad Keith... more | Add your view
There were huge cheers as the curtain came down, and rarely have they felt so poignant as in English National Ballet's Manon... more | Add your review
Amid all the confusion one can spot the kernel of a fine idea in Rosy Fordham's Sleeping Beauty and this is frustrating. .. more | Add your review
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This year we've got a bog standard line-up of B-listers and too many Americans, says
Bruce Dessau
Amy Winehouse has spent a second day nuzzling up to her new hunk Josh Bowman... more | Add your view
The Black Lion has maintained its Victorian decor and is now one of the smartest gastropubs to grace Kilburn High Road... more | Add your review
Kate Hudson haemorrhages dignity last night as she snogs American chatshow host David Letterman. .. more | Add your view
Whatever 19-year-old American Chris Brown's appeal, his 02 gig was an unsatisfactory experience... more | Add your review
Kylie Minogue seems happy to show the world she has found love again after splitting up from her boyfriend two years ago... more | Add your view
Priscilla on stage, Blur reunited, Michael Sheen as Brian Clough — we bring you the highlights of London’s arts calendar for the coming months. .. more | Add your view