So, the weather forecast: not looking too good, is it? I don't care that it will be cold, wet and muddy: I am going camping this weekend, and I am glad... more
Producing a British Mad Men was never going to be easy - a bit like doing Welsh flamenco. The Hour, for all its apparent topicality, is just a summer filler... more
Jackboots on Whitehall is set in an alternate version of Kent, in a world where Goering, Goebbels and Himmler are able to arrive in London and occupy Buckingham Palace.... more
Each corner of London has its own look: from the glossy manes of the West to the mega-wedges of the East. Orsolya Szabo spins the fashion compass... more
The legend of the 9th Roman Legion, lost for ever in Caledonia around AD 117, has been the subject of half a dozen stupid movies. Now it is Centurion's turn.... more
Just two weeks ago, the mother of The Wire star Dominic West died after a battle against leukaemia. He dedicated his Life Is A Dream performance to her.... more
In her next film, Olga Kurylenko plays a pagan queen – a fitting role for an imperious beauty driven by hunger and poverty to escape her deprived childhood in Ukraine... more
Actor Rupert Evans may have chiselled cheekbones and a nice line in noblemen, but in reality he is charmingly guileless and just a little bit accident-prone. Hermione Eyre meets
a lovely luvvie... more
Language "caught alive" is an intoxicating experience in all poetry - the sound is "the gold in the ore", said Robert Frost - and most particularly so with the poems of TS Eliot... more
Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll is holding on in a West End submerged in a sea of musicals, proving that bracing mental exercise for audiences is still permitted on the commercial London stage.... more
Tonight:
3°c
