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Jaime Winstone perfects timing for Fastest Clock in the Universe

23.09.09

Jaime Winstone displays stiletto-sharp comic timing as she totters about on precipitous heels in The Fastest Clock in the Universe.... more

Vincent Cassel - a very French hero

31.07.09

When the best French actor of his generation says his nation�s cinema is a joke, we had better listen. Vincent Cassel�s latest film, Mesrine, could put French film where he wants it to be � on top of the world ... more

Top 10 Brit flicks that could be next Slumdog

23.04.09

The pressure is on to emulate the surprise global success of Danny Boyle's film. Here are this year's top 10 homegrown movies that could hit the jackpot.... more

My part may be over but theatre goes from strength to strength

17.04.09

As he makes his exit after almost 18 years at the Standard, our theatre critic calls for the London stage to be given the bright future it so richly deserves... more

Anna Meredith is prom queen

06.08.08

How will Anna Meredith's gutsy, wild new composition for 800 performers be received by the Last Night audience?.... more

We're off to sing The Wizard

24.07.08

Director Jude Kelly has worked some magic with London revivals of Carmen Jones and On the Town. But can The Wizard of Oz succeed as a musical?.... more

Desire to shock overwhelms the plot

23.05.08

Philip Ridley's Piranha Heights becomes one of the most gratuitously unpleasant works in months, and it is impossible to give two hoots about any of it. ... more

East End brothers in Soho

15.05.08

One of the exciting things about Soho Theatre these days is you never know what you are going to get. Piranha Heights keeps us guessing.... more

Bereaved mother takes stock

05.11.07

Vincent River is an unsettling two-hander containing black humour, blacker horror and a great performance from "Oxo mum" Lynda Bellingham... more

Oxo mum picks unsavoury play

07.09.07

Forever the Oxo mum, actress Lynda Bellingham is going for a radical change of image in a play about homosexuality and murder.... more

Too dark to shed light

10.05.07

Philip Ridley's latest work Leaves of Glass, which deals with sexual and psychic damage done in childhood, offers few illuminating insights into paedophilia, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

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