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Super Cooper: Dominic Cooper's Hollywood education

09.10.09
Dominic Cooper on his teenage cross-dressing, the dangers of dancing at the Oscars and that scandalous rehearsal-room romp.... more

Lolita: The perfect approach to Humbert grotesquerie

08.09.09
We don’t see Lolita, the precocious 4ft10in nymphet, at all. Rather, we hear about her from her seducer-cum-protector, Humbert Humbert... more

Countdown to man's Big Bang begins

09.09.08
Scientists are preparing to switch on the world's biggest scientific experiment... more

End the world and we'll kill you scientists

08.09.08
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

Met officer helps to make film on police racism after 7/7

22.07.08
The director of a controversial film about a Muslim policeman told how he was helped by a senior officer involved in a real-life race battle with the Met... more

Welcome break for a jailbird

19.06.08
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

Film inspired by 7/7 bombings has premiere on anniversary

19.05.08
A film prompted by the 7 July bombings is to be premiered in London on the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks... more

DVDs of the week

06.11.07
George Clooney stars in Ocean's Thirteen, which leads the line-up of the best DVD releases this week.... more

The Queen of the Old Vic

30.10.07
It'll be all right on the night, says Kate Pakenham, mastermind of the Old Vic's 24-hour play madness.... more

DVDs of the week

28.08.07
Some implausibly attractive scientists bid to relight the sun in Sunshine, and Mr Bean goes on holiday in the DVDs of the week.... more

DVDs of the week

10.07.07
Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima, Sandra Bullock has a Premonition and Eddie Murphy dons the prosthetics again in the week's top DVDs... more

Finding room to Bloom

03.07.07
Hollywood heart-throb Orlando Bloom tells Siobhan Murphy why he has left the blockbusters behind and headed for the West End stage.... more

Superman lacks pedal power

28.06.07
A true story acuurately told can't outshine The Flying Scotsman's pedestrian formula in spite of some good acting.... more

The sun worshipper

02.04.07
28 Days Later director Danny Boyle explains how he hopes to shine a light on the human condition with new film Sunshine.... more

Minghella launches new film centre

13.03.07
Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella is hosting a champagne reception to launch the British Film Institute's new multi-million pound cultural centre.... more

Sher puts portraits of stage stars on display

12.02.07
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

A hiding to nothing

08.02.07
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. ... more

Family fun that cuts both ways

01.02.07
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

Critic's choice: top 5 plays

02.01.07
It's your last chance to catch the award-winning Caroline or Change and Much Ado About Nothing at the Novello, plus, satirical comedy A Family Affair makes a terrific impression.... more

Between anarchic rock and a hardline place

20.12.06
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

Winners to be named at London theatre awards

27.11.06
The wait is almost over. Today we will discover who has triumphed in the 52nd Evening Standard Theatre Awards at the Savoy Hotel.... more

Rufus triumphant as Rock'n'Roll rules

27.11.06
Sir Tom Stoppard's politics and music saga Rock'n'Roll blasted its way to a double victory at the prestigious Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... more

It's the Jerry and Bill show

24.11.06
Bill Wyman and Jerry Hall will team up to present the best play prize at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards at the Savoy Hotel.... more

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