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Love 'em or ban 'em, you can't keep the hoodie down

22.10.09

If you like high fashion, hoods are good. Hoods and snoods are “in” this autumn: the catwalk tells us so... more

Take 'history' by artists with a big pinch of salt

09.10.09

Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is a worthy winner of the Booker Prize but qualms have already been raised by some critics over the novel’s disservice to history... more

Romola Garai is perfect as Jane Austen’s Emma

25.09.09

Bossy, argumentative and irresistible, Romola Garai is the ideal Emma ... more

A spot of the dalmatian from sassy Luella De Vil

21.09.09

London Fashion Week: The song Temptation by New Order gave away the inspiration behind the clean, bright, curvy clothes at the super-pretty Luella show... more

British movie heaven - the Brit flicks heading our way

18.09.09

John Lennon, Charles Darwin, John Keats and Heath Ledger are all coming soon in a bumper crop of homegrown releases... more

Angel is purple prose at the movies

28.08.08

François Ozon's attempt to make an English-speaking period piece in Angel strains credulity, says Derek Malcolm.... more

The fall of a high-flying bird

28.11.07

Trevor Nunn's production of The Seagull is hampered by monotonous langour, conceptual vagueness and melodramatic pointing.... more

Bard takes a trip to Japan

20.09.07

Kenneth Branagh is definitely not a magical film-maker and his remake of As You Like It rarely catches fire as one of Shakespeare's most popular plays should. ... more

Keira's in a class of her own

06.09.07

A postmodern romance, Atonement works best as a riposte to all those films that put high-society women on a pedestal and is one of the finest British films of the year. ... more

The Wright Stuff

30.08.07

Joe Wright, the toast of Venice with the premiere of his film Atonement, talks about how he became Britain's hottest director.... more

Epic yet intimate, a British triumph

29.08.07

Ian McEwan's 'unfilmable' best-selling novel Atonement - starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy - is already being talked of as a triumph.... more

Coming soon for autumn

24.08.07

After the silliness of the summer blockbusters, autumn brings a crop of films for grown-ups. See our preview here.... more

Romola's Nina is a revelation

01.06.07

Trevor Nunn scores a direct hit with his production of Checkov's The Seagull, which owes much of its devastating impact to Romola Garai who stars as would-be actress Nina.... more

Nunn's Lear arrives, but is hardly worth the wait

01.06.07

Ian McKellen's performance as King Lear in Trevor Nunn's gaudy production keeps you on the edge of your seat but is rarely moving, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Film gives Nigeria's side of the slave trade

09.05.07

One movie has an all-star cast of Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Romola Garai and Rufus Sewell. the other was filmed in Nigeria on a shoestring budget.... more

Guts and gravitas

22.03.07

Amazing Grace may not be an outstanding success, but it is hardly a failure. It gives a good idea of the horrors of the slave trade, and deals with the parliamentary debates without boring.... more

And next year's winners will be ...

15.02.07

The Brits threaten to clean up at the Oscars - but can our film industry sustain the good form? Charlotte O'Sullivan looks ahead to the movies that could take next year's prizes.... more