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Reuniting The Rubins - review

21.10.11
Yoav Factor's debut feature has the admirable Timothy Spall in the lead and a good central story about Jewish family ructions... more

Spall and his barge Matilda banned from Thames Festival

07.09.11
Actor Timothy Spall is locked in a dispute with the organisers of the annual Thames Festival... more

Harry Potter star Spall proves he's no wizard at sailing - yet again

26.08.11
Actor Timothy Spall and his wife Shane may have had a sense of déjà vu when they were rescued by a lifeboat after getting lost while sailing their barge this week.... more

Harry Potter will premiere at Leicester Square and Trafalgar Square

01.03.11
Harry Potter will bow out with the first red carpet premiere in Trafalgar Square... more

David Miliband can’t do both politics and TV

11.01.11
The relationship between politicians and journalists is founded on mutual envy and contempt... more

Colin Firth rules in The King's Speech

07.01.11
Colin Firth is magnificent as the stammering George VI, Helena Bonham Carter majestic as the Queen Mum and Geoffrey Rush miraculous in The King's Speech ... more

BFI London Film Festival review: The King’s speech

21.10.10
A year after his acclaimed performance in Tom Ford’s A Single Man, Colin Firth delivers the finest of his career — as a stammering George VI... more

Jackboots on Whitehall can't make up its mind

08.10.10
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

Stars fight to save UK Film Council a ‘British success story’

05.08.10
More than 50 leading actors and actresses hit out at government plans to scrap the UK Film Council... more

Rafe Spall: From fat boy to slim son of Tim

28.07.10
His dad is one of the nation’s best-loved actors, but now Rafe Spall is eclipsing him in a run of hit performances... more

Timothy Spall: ‘waste tip’ cemetery was my haven

18.06.10
Actor Timothy Spall appearS in the High Court as a witness in a case against a former cemetery manager accused of hiring out part of a graveyard as a 'semi-industrial' waste tip... more

Heartless is a story of two halves

21.05.10
Heartless is an East End gangland drama interlaced with theories about the cultural and economic impact of fairytales... more

John Cale has the velvet touch

08.03.10
John Cale's show served no point whatsoever, had no commercial tie-in, but was an untrammelled delight.... more

Johnny Depp to get royal welcome at Alice In Wonderland premiere

04.02.10
Johnny Depp and Anne Hathaway will join the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall for the royal world premiere of Alice In Wonderland.... more

Quentin Tarantino honoured for "excellence" at film awards

22.12.09
Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino will receive an "excellence" gong at the London Film Critics' Circle Awards.... more

CDs of the week: Paul McCartney and Alicia Keys

11.12.09
Paul McCartney, Alicia Keys and Badly Drawn Boy give us their latest offering.... more

Rafe Spall - My London

06.11.09
Rafe was named after the title character in The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont, played by his father Timothy in an RSC production in the 1980s... more

First review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

07.07.09
The sixth instalment of the Harry Potter saga is a slickly unemotional affair with a host of special effects.... more

There's only one Brian Clough

26.03.09
Michael Sheen portrays the maverick football manager Brian Clough to perfection but Peter Morgan's adaptation falls short of glory in The Damned United.... more

My book wasn’t meant to be an assassination of Brian Clough

19.03.09
Writer of the moment David Peace should be celebrating after last night’s premiere of The Damned United, based on his controversial novel about the legendary manager. Instead, he tells us, he’s still trying to clear his name... more

The Damned fine life of Brian

18.03.09
The Damned United is a tragedy and a love story about Brian Clough, who happened to be a football manager but this isn't a football movie.... more

Back to old Wild West in Appaloosa

25.09.08
Ed Harris directs, co-writes and stars in this handsome, humorous tribute to the great American Western genre - Appaloosa.... more

The Life of Brian: £5million movie on 'Old Big Ead' Clough

21.06.08
A £5million movie based on the life of the late, great football manager Brian Clough has begun shooting in time for its cinema release next year. Actor Michael Sheen takes the role of the man nicknamed 'Old Big Ead'.... more

DVDs of the week

20.05.08
Tim Burton has a good stab at musicals in Sweeney Todd, Seinfield fans will get a buzz out of Bee Movie and My Kid Could Paint That may start an argument.... more

Cavalry comes to rescue at Chelsea hospital pageant

09.05.08
The Royal Hospital Chelsea's first pageant for 100 years will feature Judi Dench, Rory Bremner, Timothy Spall and Michael Portillo... more

DVDs of the week

15.04.08
The Mike Leigh feature Film Collection is a reminder of the writer/director's brilliance, Movin' On Up celebrates Curtis Mayfield and Enchanted brings us a modern fairytale.... more

Get real, Princess

13.12.07
There is a sustained perkiness and twinkly-eyed innocence in the performance of cartoon princess Amy Adams, which ensures Enchanted is a triumph.... more

Punk conductor stirs South Bank bedlam

21.06.07
Iggy Pop turned 60 in April but showed at his Meltdown gig that he still has the mind of a teenager who has just discovered swearing.... more

Chip off the old block

22.05.07
Rafe Spall - son of Timothy - talks to Claire Allfree about his latest role at the Royal Court and why he loves London, and its theatre.... more

DVD reviews: Silent but deadly

05.09.06
A videogame adaptation of Silent Hill that's surprisingly good joins Luis Buñuel's 1961 Palme d'Or winner Viridiana and the story of Britain's last hangman in this week's DVD releases.... more


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