Just weeks after the filming of a Brad Pitt movie brought Hollywood glamour to Glasgow, the shooting of Cloud Atlas starring Halle Berry gets under way in the city... more
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
A good day to bury bad news? Yesterday, if you could hear anything above the cacophonous humility of the Murdochs, you may have made out the scrape of shovels as councillors, privy lieutenants and deputy commissioners dug a mass grave, marched bad news up to it and booted it in... more
The 150th anniversary of the Russian playwright’s birth has prompted a season of celebration. Simon Russell Beale leads a chorus of praise from fellow actors in whom the master inspires both passion and loyalty... more
As Keira Knightley prepares to make her stage debut and Ben Whishaw sells out the Royal Court, the signs are good, says Matt Wolf, for a theatrical boomtime.
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Though by no means old-fashioned and in some ways thoroughly modern, Bright Star is a telling of a tragic story that doesn't play too many tricks with history... more
The first wave of the BFI's ever-complicated booking system opens for next month's London Film Festival, which has one of its best-ever line-ups... more
To date, Rachel Hurd-Wood's bodice has been ripped by Ben Whishaw, Ben Barnes and James Purefoy, and she's still only 19. Hettie Harvey meets costume drama's newest discovery...
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Rising star Ben Whishaw has described falling in love with the poetry of John Keats as he prepared for his new movie, a contender for the Palme d’Or prize at Cannes... more
To purists, he was an essential part of that classic English novel Brideshead Revisited. So they were aghast when it was revealed Aloysius the teddy bear would not feature in the £10million movie adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's upper-class saga. However, as our picture reveals, Lord Sebastian Flyte's furry companion has been granted a reprieve – even if he has lost rather a lot of weight since last seen in the 1981 TV version
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A 16-year-old Londoner is the star of Perfume, the film of the cult novel. But she's determined not to follow Peaches Geldof on the celebrity circuit.... more
It has taken 20 years to bring the 'unfilmable' bestseller Perfume to the screen. The Standard has had an exclusive preview and here we tell the intriguing story of how it was made.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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