Soaring numbers of teenagers are taking maths and science A-levels, today's results show - as experts say the increase could be partly down to a 'Brian Cox effect', named after the popular BBC2 presenter... more
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes revives the franchise in the form of another "origins" story, to put alongside X-Men, Thor, Captain America, Green Lantern, et al. This one's different though - it's a cracker... more
If comedy is the new rock 'n' roll, then science is the new comedy. A packed house gathered last night for the first of two epic live versions of Radio 4's Infinite Monkey Cag... more
Whether a fan of the Danish cop series, The Killing, or obsessed with Professor Brian Cox on Sunday nights, this season's television tribes
all think their series is the best. Nick Curtis classifies each species... more
The defeat by Kensington residents of plans for a new Iranian embassy in Queen's Gate, a "yellow fortress" of ochre stone and marble, is hailed as a "victory for common sense"... more
Ironclad has a bit of sensible acting between the blood-letting, when the screenplay allows with stars James Purefoy, Brian Cox and Derek Jacobi... more
If you have Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren and Brian Cox in your cast all just supporting Bruce Willis you ought to make a feistier comedy than Red... more
Just when you think things can't get any more expensive, they do. When I first heard the news that cab fares from Leicester Square are to cost up to £50 for a 12-mile journey, I thought it was an April Fool... more
The £2.6bn Large Hadron Collider is to close again for maintenance. But despite the backlash, Brian Cox, the astrophysicist making science sexy and who used to be the keyboardist in pop band D:ream still believes things can only get better.... more
Large Hadron Collider in Geneva is to close down for a year for vital safety work to be carried out before it 'pushes technology to the limits'... more
Scientists behind a machine built to recreate the Big Bang in miniature are receiving death threats from people who fear the world will end when it is fired up on Wednesday... more
Joseph Fiennes stars in The Escapist, but according to Derek Melcolm, this inventive prison drama demands and holds the audience's attention largely due to the talents of lead actor Brian Cox.... more
Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella is hosting a champagne reception to launch the British Film Institute's new multi-million pound cultural centre.... more
Sir Anthony Sher is one of the greatest living Shakespearean actors, a leading stage director and prolific author but his collection of portraits are less well known. Until now.... more
While the cast does its best, this prequel to the Hannibal Lecter franchise is just too slow. Derek Malcolm lost interest in the psychopath's ponderous quest to avenge his sister's killers.
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Running with Scissors, a film charting the warped Seventies upbringing of Augusten Burroughs, could not decide whether to be a tragic-comedy or bilious farce, says Derek Malcolm.... more
Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll is holding on in a West End submerged in a sea of musicals, proving that bracing mental exercise for audiences is still permitted on the commercial London stage.... more
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