Edinburgh Theatre: There are occasional shafts of true emotion in Simon Callow in Tuesday at Tescos but largely it's all surface show and mincing around, which serves neither Callow nor Pauline well... more
The annual arts jamboree north of the border begins tomorrow and - from Tim Supple's One Thousand and One Nights to Marc Almond's Ten Plagues and Omid Djalili's new show - there is plenty to make the trip worthwhile... more
Shot in Louisiana and Kentucky, Secretariat stars Diane Lane as the inexperienced Denver housewife and mother who took over her ailing father’s stables... more
If you have Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren and Brian Cox in your cast — all just supporting Bruce Willis — you ought to make a feistier comedy than Red... more
At 26, Simon Rich has already sold three film scripts to Hollywood, is a writer for Saturday Night Live and has just published his first novel. It’s an old-fashioned comic tale, he tells Tom Teodorczuk
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The film of the novel by a former art dealer and friend of Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Jay Jopling is about to be released — and it’s not all fiction.... more
Oscar-nominated actor John Malkovich is to tread the boards in his one-man play The Infernal Comedy as a Josef Fritzl-style Austrian psychopath... more
It has given us Antony Gormley's body sculptures on rooftops and a boating lake on its terrace. Now the Hayward Gallery is planning to turn the South Bank into a vision of polka dots for its new summer show... more
Mutant Chronicles stars John Malkovich Ron Perlman and looks like a computer game unwisely made into a movie without the money to do it justice.... more
Carole Caplin, a one-time topless model, was befriended by an exhausted Cherie Blair so that she could realign her chakras and facilitate discounts with obscure designers.... more
Don't be fooled by the uninspiring interior - this Spanish-themed restaurant creates vivacious, sensuous dishes with real flair, says Fay Maschler.... more
Brit rom-com Starter For 10, The Best Of Saturday Live, Ghosts, and the true story of an English eccentric's quest to sail round the world, are all released on DVD this week.... more
Sir Anthony Sher is one of the greatest living Shakespearean actors, a leading stage director and prolific author but his collection of portraits are less well known. Until now.... more
Christopher Paolini's fantasy adventure Eragon was an international bestseller so it was as inevitable that Hollywood would make a movie out of it. Unfortunately, the result is spectacularly dim. ... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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