From Rihanna's 10-night run at the O2 to Michael Sheen's Hamlet and the London Jazz Festival, there's plenty to look forward to between now and Christmas
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Curious tales are coming out of the US regarding the inability of the media to glean verifiable, independent information concerning the Gulf of Mexico disaster... more
One thing that seems to have been lost in the media blizzard surrounding the Home Secretary's dodgy expenses claims is the nature of the "entertainment" that was charged by Richard Timney - Jacqui Smith's husband - to the taxpayers' account... more
Michael Sheen portrays the maverick football manager Brian Clough to perfection but Peter Morgan's adaptation falls short of glory in The Damned United.... more
Bonuses may be, er, a bone of contention these days, but at the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership they're handled with all the style and grace you'd expect from the never-knowingly-undersold retailer. ... more
Priscilla on stage, Blur reunited, Michael Sheen as Brian Clough — we bring you the highlights of London’s arts calendar for the coming months.
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The 52nd London Film Festival opened with the world premiere of a movie that started just round the corner from its showing in Leicester Square... more
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
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
Given the financial hurricane that devasted the City last month, that 2008 is shaping up to be a good year for British film and our leading directors and actors ... more
A £5million movie based on the life of the late, great football manager Brian Clough has begun shooting in time for its cinema release next year. Actor Michael Sheen takes the role of the man nicknamed 'Old Big Ead'.... more
The riveting Frost/Nixon continues to enthrall, as do a new adaptation of one of Virginia Woolf's most "difficult" works and a classic by Euripedes.... more
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