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The Way Back is worth the journey

24.12.10
After years in development, this beautifully shot film - though not without its faults - proves to be worth the wait... more

My London: Martin Freeman

20.08.10
Sherlock actor and clothes addict Martin Freeman loves John Smedley, three-piece suits and the old-fashioned gentility of Claridge's... more

Dustin Hoffman to go behind the camera and direct

18.05.10
Dustin Hoffman will make his directorial debut in a "life-affirming" comedy involving BBC Films.... more

Sillitoe’s heroic career as raw working-class writer

26.04.10
Alan Sillitoe, who died yesterday at 82, will be remembered for just two books, his first novel, Saturday Night And Sunday Morning, published in 1958, and its follow-up, The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, a collection of short stories, published in 1959 ... more

Actor Sir Tom Courtenay treats pub drinkers to Shakespeare

15.01.10
Drinkers at a London pub are amazed as the veteran actor gives an impromptu performance of Shakespeare... more

Little Dorrit steals the show with seven Emmys

21.09.09
The BBC's Little Dorrit won seven Emmy Awards for Britain at American television's equivalent of the Oscars... more

The man who showed the way to London

08.09.09
The wisdom of the late Keith Waterhouse was bountiful but his phrase that most inspired me was "always look up"... more

Dorrit’s Sir Tom attacks ‘too many’ musicals in West End

17.11.08
Veteran stage actor Sir Tom Courtenay has criticised the dominance of musicals in the West End... more

Old Vic gets round to staging Ayckbourn at last

25.09.08
It is London's oldest theatre as you have never seen it before, transformed for a production not staged in the city for a generation... more

Richard Attenborough: The film bosses wanted Gandhi to be sexy - and be played by Richard Burton

03.09.08
In the final part of his captivating memoirs, film legend Richard Attenborough recalls an epic struggle... more

Bond girl Gemma to play Tess Of The d'Urbevilles as TV turns back to costume dramas

20.08.08
It is a truth universally acknowledged - especially among female viewers - that you can never have too many costume dramas. ... more

What's new on television this autumn? Austen, Hardy and Dickens

20.08.08
You could call them credit crunch classics - reliable dramas for worrying times... more

Solzhenitsyn, tortured poet of Stalin's Gulag

04.08.08
Russia is in mourning today following the death of Nobel prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who helped to free the Russian people from Soviet tyranny ... more

Ayckbourn hits revived at Old Vic

15.05.08
The Old Vic is to be transformed into a theatre in the round to stage Alan Ayckbourn's comic trilogy, The Norman Conquests... more

God given chance of a new hit

12.03.08
From the writer of Art and starring Ralph Fiennes, Tamsin Greig, Janet McTeer and Ken Stott, God of Carnage should be a polished comedy, says Nick Curtis in his preview.... more

Joy Division adds up to classic cinema

04.10.07
Musically, Control is exceptional and one of the most impressive, least pretentious films about rock that has been made.... more

A witty human story

09.08.07
A Walter Mitty-like tale from 1963, Billy Liar, has now become one of the British cinema's best markers of its time.... more

Don't panic ... it's only the latest disaster movie

27.07.07
The Houses of Parliament lie half submerged after the Thames breaks its banks. London after the latest rain? Relax - it's only a movie.... more

This week's DVD reviews

26.09.06
Unknown White Male tells the bizarre story about a man struck with a rare case of amnesia while Tony Curtis stars in the complete series of The Persuaders! Catch up with the latest DVD releases here.... more


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