"It all starts with a snap," or so we're told early in the decidedly un-snappy Burlesque, which spends three hours borrowing shamelessly...
At first sight, it seemed that Clonter Opera’s decision to tackle Tosca this year might be a leap too far. Its once-a-year complete...
Paul Weller occupies a strange place in the cultural sphere. Especially since he was adopted as an elder statesman of Britpop in the mid 1990s, he...
It started like Sunday afternoon band concert on a seaside promenade, a massive ensemble playing it light. But while there were several too many...
Having played Sherlock Holmes’s politically involved older brother Mycroft in the BBC’s hit crime series Sherlock...
Following the success of its screen version of Michael Connelly’s veteran detective Harry Bosch, starring Titus Welliver,...
Now 45 years in the past, its dazzling star gone a decade or so, The Long Good Friday is a monument of British cinema....
Comedian Tony Hancock’s vertiginous rise and fall is neatly traced in the two films he completed in the early 1960s. The warning signs were...
As a sometime writer of Poirot, Sherlock and Christmas ghost stories,...