What with Donkey Punch, Kick-Ass and True Grit, it seems that young girls, even pre-adolescent, are the new film heroines. Saoirse Ronan's teenage Hanna, however, beats the lot of them ... more
The end of the weekend has just become bearable again. Into the gap left by Downton Abbey steps TV drama Any Human Heart — starring the original book’s biggest fan... more
Tom Hollander always wanted to be taken seriously — but as he prepares to take the lead in the Old Vic’s Christmas farce, he’s finally made his peace with comedy, he tells Nick Curtis... more
They are both Surrey girls, born only months apart. As the release of their latest film Never Let Me Go casts a spotlight on Hollywood stars Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley, Olivia Cole ponders just who will eclipse whom?... more
Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is a worthy winner of the Booker Prize but qualms have already been raised by some critics over the novel’s disservice to history... more
Priscilla on stage, Blur reunited, Michael Sheen as Brian Clough — we bring you the highlights of London’s arts calendar for the coming months.
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Given the financial hurricane that devasted the City last month, that 2008 is shaping up to be a good year for British film and our leading directors and actors ... more
I have further revelations following my report last week that the wedding between Rosamund Pike and her film director fiance Joe Wright had been suddenly called off.... more
It was a spine tingling moment that capped an extraordinary evening for British Oscar winner Daniel-Day Lewis. Having just been announced as Best Actor in There Will Be Blood, the London-born actor was 'knighted' by last year's British success story, Dame Helen Mirren. Imitating the famous pose on stage at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre, Day-Lewis joked about her performance as the Queen, saying: 'This is the closest I'll ever come to getting a knighthood, so thank you'
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British actresses were sensationally snubbed at the Baftas in favour of an unknown French starlet. Julie Christie and Keira Knightley both lost out in the best actress category to Marion Cotillard, the 32-year-old star of La Vie En Rose about the life of the Parisian singer Edith Piaf... more
A postmodern romance, Atonement works best as a riposte to all those films that put high-society women on a pedestal and is one of the finest British films of the year.
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Lesley Manville is taking on the lead role in a stage adaptation of Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother - alongside transsexual prostitutes, lesbian divas and a pregnant nun.... more
For a romantic comedy Becoming Jane has serious aspirations. The feminist heroine is both brittle and self-conscious, while the horror of poverty is also forcefully conveyed.... 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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