The scenario Pickett has devised shouldn’t work; in fact, it raises one too many questions to be wholly successful, notably: who has been fighting this civil war? On one side is tattooed, bearded, ...

There are warnings on every screening-room door at the LFF; Rafael Manuel’s award-winning Filipiñana carries an unnecessary one about sexist language and attitudes. This beautifully shot but mannered ...

Anne-Marie Duff stars as Julie, a middle-aged, middle-class divorcée who parted company with her cheating husband Richard some 11 years ago, and has brought up their two daughters, the ambitious ...

Ibsen's powerful study of hypocrisy gleams and bristles in the close-up intimacy of the bijou Jermyn Street Theatre. Richard Eyre's version, first seen at the Almeida in 2013, presents the play, its ...

That body art, he explains, represents how Chladni have been observed since ancient times, and can be seen throughout the natural world: tortoiseshells, leopard spots, zebra stripes, and, when sliced ...

How much further Ibragimova and a slightly different team - all women now - have taken that G minor Quartet than on their already superb BIS recording. Haydn wasn't exactly young when he made this ...

If you haven't read A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson, who collaborated on the film, you'll want to after this. Were the story of how how De Gaulle and his ...

Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine may have more dialogue than all the 1957 films put together, but McDonagh never seems to have thought his theatre-born gabbiness can’t be pasted across into cinema.