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Innovations aplenty in Citizen Kane

30.10.09

Made by Orson Welles at the tender age of 25 in 1941, Citizen Kane is certainly the most stunning debut film... more

Lenny Henry finds moor in Othello

21.09.09

Casting Lenny Henry in the role of Othello ensures a breathless audience � greedy to see how the neophyte compares with predecessors.... more

Sporting Miscellanies

08.06.09

Sport: After his French Open triumph, there is no doubt that Roger Federer is tennis' GOAT... more

Eminem - the bad angel who produces great art

01.06.09

There's a pleasing irony in Eminem emerging from his Detroit stockade with a No 1 album, Relapse, the same week that the US's biggest motor manufacturer collapses. What's bad for GM is good for rap... more

To Sur with love

10.05.09

The stretch of California coast which inspired Kerouac and the hippy generation is as stunning as ever, says Janice Blackburn... more

Score for Psycho to fetch �40,000

04.03.09

The original score for the soundtrack of Psycho is to go under the hammer... more

Seducer of the Valleys dies after riotous life of wine and women

14.01.09

Someone once asked Dai Llewellyn if he did the lottery. "No, old boy," he drawled. "I have already won the lottery of life."... more

Rachel Weisz blooms at gala screening

28.10.08

Rachel Weisz wowed fans on the red carpet at the gala screening of her new movie The Brothers Bloom... more

Brothers at play in Burn After Reading

16.10.08

Joel and Ethan Coen's follow-up to No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, is a camp, farcical comedy with a stellar cast.... more

Terrorist's daughter who grew up to be the face of a lingerie brand

30.07.08

The picture of her wielding a machine gun was one of the most infamous of the seventies, but now it is Patty Hearst's model daughter Lydia who is striking a memorable pose.... more

High School Musical sweethearts Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens escape for steamy beach break

19.07.08

High School Musical stars Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens may have chemistry on screen, but off screen, it electric.... more

Wall-E is not so rubbish

17.07.08

The cautionary tale of a robot cleaning Earth after humans have fled, Wall-E breaks new ground for computer animation.... more

Italian political thriller

06.03.08

It can't be easy to play Orson Welles, but Danny Huston has a good shot at it in Oliver Parker's Fade to Black.... more

This is the best modern theatre I know

08.01.08

After a lengthy campaign, Sir Peter Hall is finally reopening the stunning new Rose in Kingston next week with his production of Uncle Vanya.... more

Citizen Kane Oscar set to fetch �600,000

11.12.07

Orson Welles's Oscar for Citizen Kane is expected to fetch nearly £600,000 when it goes under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York.... more

Slick, sleek and chic

10.08.07

Dining for the rich and famous: exclusive and celebrity studded Cipriani pulses with power and makes no secret of its 'boogie factor'.... more

So bad it's good ... almost

03.05.07

If there's such a thing as a good bad movie, this 1986 animated effort from Nelson Shin might easily qualify. ... more

I'm very scared of being back on stage

02.03.07

Maggie Smith returns to the West End in an Edward Albee play that hasn't been revived since its disastrous Broadway premiere. After five decades of acting, the fear, she says, is just as bad.... more

Boys are back with a class act

04.01.07

Alan Bennett's The History Boys returns to London making a far stronger emotional impact than in 2004, leaving Nicholas de Jongh moved, disturbed and exhilarated.... more

Lost in space at Mirabelle

06.11.06

On the night that Toby Young visited Mirabelle, the flagship of Marco's White Star Line group, he discovered that he had the entire restaurant to himself.... more