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Films of the week: A powerful study of rift in love, life and expectation in Blue Valentine
Friday 02 August 2013
Friday
From Goldfinger to Holby: Honor Blackman to star in Casualty
Tuesday 30 July 2013
Former Bond girl Honor Blackman is set to make a guest appearance in Casualty playing a feisty pensioner on a mission.
DVD & Blu-ray review: The Village: Series 1, For retail and rental (Entertainment One)
Friday 05 July 2013
The first six hours of a planned 42 telling the story of a Derbyshire village over the 20th century, and, yes, this first series of Peter Moffat’s drama groaned under its ambition.
Film posters: The images that draw the audience in
Friday 05 July 2013
A new book celebrates the art of film posters. Sadly, they don't make them like they used to, the author tells Charlotte Cripps
Julian Knight: How Sir Mervyn blotted his copybook by neglecting the needs of Britain's savers
Saturday 08 June 2013
The outgoing Bank Governor saw the financial crisis coming and was a steadying influence – but he could have done more for the prudent
Britain basks in sunshine: Good weather set to continue all the way through this week
Monday 03 June 2013
Temperatures could peak at 25C
What would Shoshanna say? Girls star Zosia Mamet and sister Clara fail to impress fans with Kickstarter campaign
Friday 31 May 2013
There are no “emojis” to describe Girls star Zosia Mamet and her sister Clara’s (as yet) failed attempt to raise $32,000 from fans to help launch their music careers.
Album: Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette, Somewhere (ECM)
Saturday 25 May 2013
A new live recording from the world's leading jazz trio – now 30 years old – doesn't set the pulse racing as much as it once did.
Champions League final: Angela Merkel turns her back on Bayern Munich's Uli Hoeness as tax row clouds Wembley showdown
Sunday 19 May 2013
Saturday's all-German Champions' League final is being overshadowed by a Bayern Munich saga that has reached the very top
Video: DVD and Blu-Ray releases
Friday 17 May 2013
See below to watch the trailers for this week's DVD and Blu-Ray releases
Paperback review: Former People: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy, By Douglas Smith
Sunday 12 May 2013
Ghostly testimony from a world away
Comedy review: Doc Brown, The Royal Albert Hall, London
Wednesday 01 May 2013
Towards the end of his show rapper-turned comic Doc Brown (real name Ben Bailey Smith) says that he feels he is “still drifting”and that his career journey so far could still be a work in progress.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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