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Soap opera science in Creation

25.09.09
Darwin's life was eventful enough without the added clichés that Creation director Jon Amiel couldn't resist in the retelling of a fascinating story.... more

British movie heaven - the Brit flicks heading our way

18.09.09
John Lennon, Charles Darwin, John Keats and Heath Ledger are all coming soon in a bumper crop of homegrown releases... more

Resound of the suburbs in Parlour Song

27.03.09
Jez Butterworth’s Parlour Song duly delves into the vexed problem of marriages heading for the rocks.... more

Short plays inspire long friendships

23.01.09
Tom Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the National is my dream play. Yes, yes, it's a brilliant and chilling indictment of Soviet treatment of political dissidents... more

Short plays inspire long friendships

23.01.09
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Mad to be sane in Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

19.01.09
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, premiered in 1977, poses a vital question for countries where the still small voice of dissent remains stifled.... more

Tragedy of King George in W.

06.11.08
As Barack Obama sweeps into power, Oliver Stone portrays the outgoing US President in Shakespearean terms in W.... more

Whitewashed look at the White House

24.10.08
Oliver Stone's George Bush biopic is sly, old-fashioned melodrama. It works as entertainment but as history, W deserves an F, says Charlotte O'Sullivan.... more

Gripping account of a titanic clash

16.10.08
RON HOWARD'S film is surprisingly gripping. It turns on the incremental power shifts in the set-up and execution of the 1977 TV interview in which David Frost got the disgraced President Richard Nixon to admit he had let the American people down with his criminal conduct in the Watergate affair.... more

Gripping account of clash in Frost/Nixon

16.10.08
Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon is an intelligently written and superlatively acted piece which addresses fame and ambition.... more

Film festival begins with a premiere of Frost

15.10.08
The London Film Festival kicks off with the premiere of Frost/Nixon just yards from where it was originally staged as a play at the Donmar Warehouse... more

Anyone got the foggiest about The Mist?

03.07.08
Frank Darabont's confused adaptation of Stephen King's The Mist doesn't know if it's a horror movie or a morality tale.... more

Love in a time of cholera

26.04.07
If it is conventionally made and a little too long, The Painted Veil has much to commend it. And in Edward Norton it has one of the best and most versatile actors America can muster at present.... more

Critic's choice: Best comedy shows

15.02.07
Ed Byrne vents his anger at the Riverside Studios, Pete Firman brings a bit of magic to NW1 and stage newcomers get the chance to rub shoulders with a film star at the Maestro Impro Show.... more

More gongs for Mirren's Queen

09.02.07
Dame Helen Mirren added to her clutch of awards for The Queen when she was named best British actress at the London Film Critics' Circle Awards.... more

Capote returns to the screen a changed man

18.01.07
Douglas McGrath's Infamous is a warmer, more emotional film, quite different in style from last year's Capote. ... more

Will the Brits get the gongs?

21.12.06
British actors have put in some prizewinnning performances this year. They'll get Oscar nominations, just don't expect them all to win.... more

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