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The ultimate Road movie

04.09.09

The long-awaited adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s disturbing story of a father and son on the run has received its world premiere. It’s been one hell of a trip, writer Joe Penhall tells Nick Roddick... more

Let’s go. We can’t. Why not? ... We’re still waiting to perform Godot in a public loo

23.07.09

When Harry Michell was refused permission to stage Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot in a public lavatory by the playwright's estate he wanted revenge... more

Female of species has mind of its own

17.07.08

Wickedly clever, the Female Of The Species is deadly funny and makes for an evening of educated and reactionary amusement.... more

Craig: British film industry no charity case

29.11.07

James Bond star Daniel Craig has launched a staunch defence of the British film industry saying it needs no special pleading.... more

Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007: the longlist

31.10.07

A dazzling year of performances on the London stage will be honoured at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007. Here, for the first time, is the longlist. ... more

DVDs of the week

24.07.07

Peter O'Toole's Oscar-nominated role in Venus, a strong take on terrorism in Catch A Fire and a compilation from Roxy Music are among the DVDs of the week.... more

Secrets, lies and Pinter's sound of silence

06.06.07

Harold Pinter casts a rare, revealing eye on adultery and its companion, mendacity, in Betrayal, his indelibly fine account of a triangular love affair in Seventies literary London.... more

A loaded weapon

10.04.07

Joe Penhall's Landscape With Weapon about the moral responsibility of a weapons designer requires far too much suspending of disbelief and doubt-swallowing, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Pinter is back with a vengeance

23.02.07

The explosion of interest in Harold Pinter plays has reached a new level with the Donmar Warehouse announcing a revival of adultery drama Betrayal.... more

National to stage classic Niven film

15.02.07

A much-loved war film has been adapted into a play to be staged at the National Theatre.... more

Life in the old dog yet

25.01.07

Fine acting performances can't transcend Venus, a film that hovers between near farce and tragi-comedy without ever landing on a convincing level.... more

Last of the hellraisers

23.01.07

Peter O'Toole is the great survivor of that generation of hard-living actors. All good preparation for his new role, he tells Nick Curtis.... more

Hollywood's new royalty

16.01.07

After the Golden Globe successes and record growth in the British film industry, we name our top 50 major players.... more

Will the Brits get the gongs?

21.12.06

British actors have put in some prizewinnning performances this year. They'll get Oscar nominations, just don't expect them all to win.... more

One foot in the door, the other in the grave

20.10.06

Any film with Peter O'Toole and Leslie Phillips ought at least to have a modicum of entertainment in it and Roger Michell and Hanif Kureishi's comedy Venus certainly has that.... more

London Film Festival highlights

14.09.06

Derek Malcolm chooses his highlights from the recently announced 50th London Film Festival line up.... more

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