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What's Your Number? - review

30.09.11
It is difficult to recall a film in which the word "vagina" is used so often. But the female characters in this rom-com have little else to commend them than their sexual organs... more

Swinging With The Finkels is a mediocre screenplay

17.06.11
Swinging With The Finkels has Mandy Moore and Martin Freeman as a couple who meet as students, marry and then decide, 10 years later, that things need sprucing up a bit... more

The Only Way Is Essex wins a BAFTA

23.05.11
ITV2's The Only Way Is Essex won the YouTube Audience Award, the only prize chosen by viewers. Mark Wright, who appears in the reality show, said it felt "incredible" to win... more

Dr Who versus Sherlock Holmes for Bafta

26.04.11
Who's against Holmes for Bafta... and Watson is up for award too as Matt Smith takes on Benedict Cumberbatch... more

Strain to love thy neighbour in Clybourne Park

09.02.11
Bruce Norris's controversial and scabrously funny study of liberal pieties Clybourne Park has lost nothing in its transfer from the Royal Court to the West End... more

The best DVDs for a Christmas on the sofa

23.12.10
TV drama has had a cracking year and the comedy boom is unstoppable - here's our essential guide to the best of this year’s new DVD releases... more

London Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2010: The long-list unveiled

25.10.10
In an outstanding year for London theatre, our judging panel have picked out the most remarkable performances and productions. The choices reflect the explosion of young talent emerging alongside theatre grandees who are at the top of their game... more

Royal Court sends a third hit play to West End

29.09.10
The Royal Court’s hit play Clybourne Park is set to open in the West End — the theatre’s third such transfer in a year following moves by Enron and Jerusalem... more

Clybourne Park is the funniest play of the year

03.09.10
Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park is an achingly intelligent study of middle-class hypocrisy... more

My London: Martin Freeman

20.08.10
Sherlock actor and clothes addict Martin Freeman loves John Smedley, three-piece suits and the old-fashioned gentility of Claridge's... more

Michael Cera makes unlikely action star at Scott Pilgrim vs The World premiere

19.08.10
Film fans were out in force to see one of the most unlikely-looking action heroes to ever come out of Hollywood for the Scott Pilgrim vs The World premiere ... more

Why we’re all still crazy about Sherlock Holmes

19.07.10
With a new West End play, a Nintendo game and a series of BBC films, Sherlock’s stock has never been higher... more

No more Mr Nice Guy...Martin Freeman plays a racist

13.07.10
Martin Freeman, star of The Office, is to throw off his Mr Nice Guy image to play a racist in a new satirical drama.... more

Tom Cruise praises his leading ladies at National Movie Awards

27.05.10
Movie heart-throb Tom Cruise said he had been "very lucky" with his leading ladies - adding his favourite was wife Katie Holmes.... more

Rembrandt revisited in Nightwatching

26.03.10
With gorgeous scene-setting, keen intelligence and great originality, Peter Greenaway tells the story of Rembrandt's fall from grace in Nightwatching.... more

Two schools go to war in Nativity!

27.11.09
There’s something sweet about Debbie Isitt’s film Nativity! It tells the story of a teacher and his attempts to create a Christmas show that will out-do his private school rivals... more

ITV launches leaner, fitter schedule with dramatic twists

18.11.08
ITV has unveiled details of a major new campaign to tackle obesity in Britain, as part of a new season of programmes dominated by big drama commissions and the return of popular shows ... more

Hartnett is main man in Old Vic's 24 Hour Plays

11.11.08
Josh Hartnett, Martin Freeman, Dervla Kirwan and Jessica Hynes are four of the stars who will take part in this year's 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala at the Old Vic... more

DVDs of the week

10.06.08
Juno is the teenager we'd all love to have been, The Kite Runner is thrillingly watchable and The Inbetweeners is old-shool comedy. ... more

Brother, just look at Gwynnie

17.01.08
Jake Paltrow is stretching credulity to its limit by casting sister Gwyneth as a plain Jane with boyfriend trouble in The Good Night.... more

Desperate comedy fails to fire

10.05.07
A clutch of British stars appear in dim British comedy The All Together... more

For the love of film

03.05.07
Rottentomatoes is the latest movie website to expand with a special UK version. You can find out everything you need to know about cinema on the internet - but where to look?... more

Hot Fuzz stars swap red carpet for blue

14.02.07
The stars of police comedy movie Hot Fuzz swapped the traditional red carpet for blue at the film's world premiere.... more

Plays fight back against musicals

06.12.06
A string of high-profile plays has been planned for next year to take on the likes of musicals such as The Sound Of Music and Spamalot.... more

Low life in the city's shadows

09.11.06
Anthony Minghella's new thriller Breaking And Entering stylishly explores the seedy side of the capital but it lacks a dramatic edge, says Derek Malcolm.... more

An unreel line-up

18.10.06
The 50th London Film Festival kicks off with its usual flashbulb-popping flair, as British stars stud the red carpet for The Last King Of Scotland at Odeon Leicester Square.... more


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