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Days Of Heaven - review

02.09.11
The digitally restored version of Terrence Malick's 1978 film, showing as part of a season dedicated to him at the BFI, is unmissable, says David Sexton... more

Fair Game is unlikely to do well at the US box-office

11.03.11
Fair Game Valerie Plame's time as a CIA operative and is well worth director Doug Liman's comment: "You couldn't have made this up."... more

Passion runs cold in Fool For Love

29.01.10
The play is a sort of modern western, a vicious wrangle in a motel room in the Mojave desert. ... more

Opening this week

25.01.10
The premiere of the Last Station and Abbaworld opens at Earls Court, promising a 'mind-blowing' experience... more

Siblings go to war in Brothers

22.01.10
Brothers is relevant to anyone concerned about the British soldiers currently living and dying in Afghanistan and to anyone who's ever felt like a stranger in their own land... more

Libertine Carl Barât takes to the stage

15.01.10
Carl Barât is making his theatre debut opposite Sadie Frost in A Fool for Love and is recording a “naked” solo album... more

DVDs of the week

28.10.08
Without Robert Downey Jr's winning charm Iron Man would be a disaster. ... more

Riding the rough in Kicking a Dead Horse

11.09.08
It should come as no great surprise that Sam Shepard should now be moving into Samuel Beckett territory with Kicking a Dead Horse.... more

Sam Shepard rides into town

05.09.08
Sam Shepard's new play is something of a coup for the Almeida, not least because Shepard himself occupies the director’s chair.... more

Screwball with a screw loose

28.02.08
The Accidental Husband is a terrible romantic comedy, looking like a bad Bollywood movie without the songs.... more

A feast of famous faces

14.02.08
Hollywood dominates in Vanity Fair Portraits, an unmissable exhibition that follows portrait photography through its changes.... more

What are we going to do about Dad?

24.01.08
The Savages is witty and knowing, with its star Laura Linney fully deserving of her Oscar nomination.... more

How Jesse shot to hero status

29.11.07
Brad Pitt is upstaged by his murderer in The Assassination of Jesse James, a long, poetic film that leaves many questions unanswered.... 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

I feel loved in London

16.02.07
As The Glass Menagerie opens to West End acclaim despite flopping on Broadway, Jessica Lange, now 57, confessses to first-night nerves and tells how she's still a rebel at heart.... more

Dark visions of murder

18.01.07
The Return contains some genuine chills, but ex-Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar cannot rescue the movie from its too-frequent incredible moments. ... more

Critic's Choice: Top Five Plays

04.09.06
Nicholas de Jongh picks out five of the best theatrical productions currently onstage in the West End, from the highly entertaining The 39 Steps, to the superb Frost/Nixon.... more


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