The first episode of this three-part history focused exclusively on Norway, and was subtitled "The Dark Night of the Soul". What was exceedingly odd about the programme was its melodramatic pessimism, ...

Playwright Roy Williams’ adaptation slims down the characters and beefs up the roles played by women but still captures the essentials of Selvon’s novel. Seven actors fill the tiny stage at the Jermyn ...

In Normal, under the firm directorial hand of Billericay’s own Ben Wheatley, Odenkirk deftly extends his range a little further as Sheriff Ulysses Richardson. In a story Odenkirk penned with co-writer ...

Written by sketch comedy veterans the Dawson Bros. and real-life brothers Jimmy and Patrick Carr, and directed by Jim O'Hanlon, Fackham Hall is a surprisingly lavish affair, filmed in and around ...

It’s her son Michael (Paul Ready, pictured below with Johnston) who acquires a second-hand – or, if you will, “pre-loved” – droid at a bargain price (because that’s the kind of cheapskate guy he is).

This carefully crafted mosaic of forbidden love and organised crime is atmospheric, addictive and hugely bingeworthy. The plotting is meticulous, with each of the three series building inexorably to a ...

The Oxford Song Festival, now in its 26th year, continues to develop and build on its remarkable mission to bring stellar singers and pianists – and also both familiar and sometimes very obscure and ...

Anyway, From Darkness stars Anne-Marie Duff as Claire Church, a former Manchester police officer who became demoralised by her investigations of missing prostitutes back in the late Nineties, which ...

Mt Fuji is in the distance while in the foreground there’s a smaller, cone-shaped wave that, with its foaming spray, looks just like a watery version of the snow covered peak. This is deliberate, of ...

For all his brutal honesty, Goya was an artist of great humanity and of the two exhibitions dedicated to him in 2015, it is the much smaller Goya: Witches and Old Women Album at the Courtauld Gallery ...

And therein lies something of a problem for any theatre adaptation, especially one in a small venue. It is of necessity going to be a chamber piece, not a cinematic drama. Translated to a small stage ...

As a combination, it was a bit of a strange brew. The opening one-two of “The Red Ground”, all bar room twang, and “Does It Ever Cross Your Mind?” getting a hoedown ready indicated a Nashville heart, ...