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Brighton Rock is a noir that's not dark enough

04.02.11
A sixties set adaptation on the original movie that starred Sir Richard Attenborough as Pinkie... more

Helen Mirren tips Colin Firth for Oscar glory at Brighton Rock premiere

02.02.11
At the premiere for Brighton Rock, Dame Helen Mirren has predicted Colin Firth will be crowned best actor at this month's Oscars... more

Life-changing moments in The Potting Shed

10.01.11
The Potting Shed is a psychological drama which explores ideas of doubt and moral certainty... more

25 ways to survive the dark months

05.01.11
The festive season may be behind us but there are plenty of winter warmers to keep us entertained... more

Toronto is the new Tinsletown thanks to Film Festival

08.09.10
It’s where British stars flock and has made hits of UK films from Slumdog Millionaire to An Education. The Toronto Film Festival now rivals Venice in importance, says Tom Teodorczuk... more

Marks & Spencer sparks bid talk as it lines up banker chief in Robert Swannell

20.08.10
Marks & Spencer is to appoint an investment banker as its new chairman, sparking speculation that it is plotting takeover activity... more

Lord Mandelson’s warning to Labour: stay in denial and you lose

12.07.10
Lord Mandelson’s forthright new memoirs are salutary — his party can’t turn the clock back on New Labour... more

Went the Day Well? is based on a short story

09.07.10
Went the Day Well? by the Brazilian director Alberto Cavalcanti has German shock troops occupying a quiet English village.... 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

Who to watch in 2010

05.01.10
In politics, the arts, sport and beyond, there is a wealth of talent jostling to make a mark this year, says Gideon Spanier... more

Only Fools and Horses tower block to be torn down

21.12.09
The sink estate made famous as the home of Del Boy, Rodney and Uncle Albert in Only Fools and Horses is being torn down... more

It's a crime not to honour our thriller writers

06.11.09
Why does discrimination against crime writing still exist?... more

London's hidden wonders

16.10.09
Candida Lycett Green has spent a lifetime seeking out hidden wonders all over England. Here she reveals three of the most magical and surprising oases in the capital... more

A novel experience for a man versed in poetry

11.08.09
So greatly feared and loathed is the Poet’s Novel that novels by poets are often reviewed as though to exorcise them... more

Rupert Goold is the director with the golden touch

07.08.09
Move over Mendes, watch out Nunn, Rupert Goold's production of Enron is the critical hit of the summer, and his Kubrick-inspired take on Shakespeare thrills modern audiences... more

Where is the novelist to do our city justice?

31.07.09
Dickens’s novels seemed to encapsulate the entire city and London became the central character of his work... more

Please, no more scraps from beyond the grave

14.07.09
George III got it right, I think. He once said he was always glad to hear of the death of an author - because then he knew he'd got the fellow complete upon his shelf... more

It doesn't take a pain marathon to make a mum

13.07.09
Two weeks ago my fiancée was giving birth to our daughter, and we went through an experience common to many first-time parents: we showed up too early at the hospital and were sent packing... more

The sign of a great writer: quit while you’re ahead

03.04.09
It's been announced that Gabriel García Márquez is "laying down his pen". At 82, he won't be writing anything else, his agent says. ... more

This teeming, blazing patchwork of rumpus streets and villages I call home

09.03.09
I was a country boy, brought up 20 minutes south of Constable's valley, in a village my father's family have lived in for four generations... more

Dave beats Gordon to Barack's book club

11.11.08
How will Barack Obama bond with Gordon Brown and David Cameron when it comes to literary tastes? ... more

Boo to Super Thursday and hurrah to real writers

03.10.08
The booksellers are still looking forward to Christmas, if nobody else is. No fewer than 800 new titles were published yesterday, including most of the publishers’ best shots at the all-important present market... more

The history play man

03.06.08
Michael Frayn again delves into the past for his new play, Afterlife, about the now obscure theatre director Max Reinhardt.... more

I'll forgive the messy morals if I can have great writing

08.04.08
So now we know. The new authorised biography of VS Naipaul reveals the Nobel laureate is a monster of meanness and paranoia who enjoyed whoremongering, beating up his mistress and verbally abusing his wife... more

DVDs of the week

20.11.07
John Travolta squeezes into a fat suit in Hairspray and Mark Thomas relights your political ire in the DVDs of the week.... more

Rumble down the disco

29.05.07
Rumble Strips, the London outfit keen to challenge for indie disco ubiquity, could be a refreshing antidote to many glossy guitar bands. ... more

Rules works its magic

16.10.06
When Toby Young had a meeting with his mortgage broker he discovered that Rules, London's most upper-class restaurant, is just the ticket when you're out to impress.... more

Park take it to the max

09.10.06
Maximo Park's angular precision has won them loyal fans, and here the pop-punk songs came close to matching their specatacle, says John Aizlewood.... more


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