Smash! - a comedy about the struggle to turn a hit novel into a stage musical - doesn't make it into the premier league of Jack Rosenthal's admirable back catalogue... more
Ventriloquist Nina Conti intends to do a run of solo shows six weeks before her baby is due.
Viv Groskop, who went on stage at eight months pregnant, finds her attitude refreshing ... more
Raoul Ruiz still inspires awe in a certain kind of art house devotee —including, clearly, long-term collaborator Gilbert Adair in A Closed Book.
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In 2003, as a reporter for The Mail on Sunday, I joined Colonel Tim Collins as he led our troops to war in Iraq. Kenneth Branagh plays Colonel Tim giving his historic eve-of-battle speech; Washington plays me writing it all down... more
Protesters led by actor Tom Conti lay down in the road as they tried to save a historic London street from becoming a rat run for lorries from a nearby building site... more
Friday Night Project co-host Alan Carr, fast-rising star Michael McIntyre, Arthur Smith's Cut-Price Comedy Club and Time Vine all feature in Bruce Dessau's comedy picks.... 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
In Rabbit Fever, women the world over are hooked on the Rampant Rabbit sex toy and as a full-length mockumentary film it isn't long before the vaguely Freudian gag wears pretty thin.... more
A new "mockumentary" Rabbit Fever, featuring the world's most popular sex toy, is set to become the unlikeliest British film smash of the year.... more