Meryl Streep gives a note-perfect portrait of an elderly lady bewildered with dementia.
DVD: The Iron Lady
Sunday 29 April 2012
Weirdly, Phyllida Lloyd's Iron Lady devotes just half of its running time to Margaret Thatcher's upbringing and political career.
The late Manning Marable wins history Pulitzer prize
Tuesday 17 April 2012
The late Manning Marable won the Pulitzer Prize for history yesterday, honoured for a Malcolm X book he worked on for decades but did not live to see published.
Appropriate Adults scoops two Royal Television Society awards
Wednesday 21 March 2012
Appropriate Adults Dominic West and Emily Watson have each carried off a Royal Television Society award for their performances in the drama about the killer Fred West.
The midlife crisis that followed the Lord of the Flies
Tuesday 13 March 2012
The object of William Golding's five-year obsession in the swinging Sixties breaks her silence. By John McEntee
From Tory tough nut to a taste for the wild side
Tuesday 13 March 2012
Olivia Poulet – best known as Emma in 'The Thick of It', and as Benedict Cumberbatch's ex – tells Matilda Battersby about her harrowing and disturbing new stage role
A midlife crisis that followed Lord of the Flies
Tuesday 13 March 2012
The object of William Golding's obsession breaks her silence
Olivia Poulet: From Tory tough nut to a taste for the wild side
Tuesday 13 March 2012
Olivia Poulet – best known as Emma in The Thick of It, and as Benedict Cumberbatch's ex – talks about her harrowing and disturbing new stage role
Simon Callow talks the circus, Jamie Oliver and coming out
Wednesday 07 March 2012
Simon Callow – actor, director and writer – doesn’t have many regrets, but he says he would love to have joined a circus. He would be “a clown of course.”
Spotlight on: Harvey Weinstein, Co-chairman, the Weinstein Company
Tuesday 28 February 2012
And the winner is... Yes, after the Oscars, who can doubt that the brothers Weinstein, Harvey and his younger sibling Bob, are back on top in Hollywood? The Weinstein Company distributed The Artist in the US, and orchestrated its campaign to win Best Picture, and that wasn't the only one of the firm's movies taking plaudits.
What it takes to win a Oscar
Saturday 25 February 2012
All film-makers are searching for the secrets of Oscar success. But the formula is pretty straightforward, as Daniel Bettridge explains...
Film extra tells Madonna the real history of Wallis Simpson
Wednesday 11 January 2012
A patriotic film extra decided to set his director straight over her revisionist take on royal history, despite the fact it was Madonna in charge.
The Blockheads, Water Rats, London
Monday 26 December 2011
A fan barely moves the warm, soupy air inside the packed pub back room. It’s the sort of place where Ian Dury played with his band Kilburn and the High Roads in the early 1970s, one leg ravaged by polio, his Essex guttersnipe wit and intransigent attitude influencing a watching Johnny Rotten. But it was his next band the Blockheads who provided the jazz-funk, pub-rock engine which powered his greatest work, often co-written with Chaz Jankel.








