Jamie Oliver's dream was a nightmare | Victoria Coren
His school project only proved that most of the pupils didn't deserve the attention they gotThank the Lord, Jamie's Dream School has finished. That programme was bad for the blood pressure. Can it have...
View ArticleTalking about bipolar disorder
Everyone now knows about Catherine Zeta-Jones's bipolar disorder. But what's life like for others who have the illness?Last week, the actor Catherine Zeta-Jones confirmed she had spent five days at a...
View ArticleCatherine Zeta-Jones in final negotiations to join Rock of Ages
Zeta-Jones is set to play the music-hating villain, a newly created character, in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Rock of AgesCatherine Zeta-Jones is set to play the music-hating villain in...
View ArticleSwansea Bay film festival branded 'disaster'
Festival organiser under fire after international film-makers forced to organise own screenings and publicityA film festival which once boasted Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Sheen among its...
View ArticleLloyd Webber gives £3.5m to performing arts school
Arts Educational Schools in west London to benefit from composer's philanthropic foundationA leading school for the performing arts is to be given £3.5m from the philanthropic foundation set up by...
View ArticleLlyndy Isaf farm in Wales saved by National Trust after £1m appeal
Beautiful land and lake where wildlife thrives, and where legend says dragons fought, saved following 20,000 donationsThe National Trust has raised £1m to buy a farm encompassing a lake considered one...
View ArticleRock of Ages trailer: Tom Cruise and Alec Baldwin wig out 80s-style
We can't decide if Adam Shankman's star-studded hair-metal romp is a delight or a damp mullet. What do you think?Dim the lights, turn the smoke machine up to Epic, for here – strutting across the...
View ArticleSundance 2012: Lay the Favorite – review
Rebecca Hall delivers a fabulously ditzy turn in Stephen Frears's likable caper that divided the critics at the Sundance film festivalStephen Frears tends to provoke a polarised response to his work,...
View ArticleRock of Ages – review
This hugely dislikable film of the rock musical currently running in London's West End is set in 1987 Los Angeles and stars the colourless Julianne Hough and Diego Boneta as out-of-town innocents who...
View ArticleLay the Favourite – review
Based on a true-life memoir, Stephen Frears's gambling caper isn't interesting or very comprehensibleStephen Frears is a supremely accomplished director, but perhaps there was little he could do with...
View ArticleLay the Favorite – review
With The Grifters nothing but a memory, Stephen Frears's latest hustling tale is an oddly lacklustre and forgettable affair. Rebecca Hall is typically watchable as Beth Raymer, a...
View ArticleSide Effects: watch the trailer for Steven Soderbergh's new film - video
Watch the UK exclusive trailer for Steven Soderbergh's new thriller, which stars Rooney Mara as a woman who comes under the influence of a new strain of anti-depressants
View ArticleSide Effects – review
This clever pharma-thriller would be a fitting sign-off for Steven SoderberghSteven Soderbergh, who celebrated his 50th birthday two months ago, recently announced his retirement from the cinema in...
View ArticleSeeing double: are Side Effects and Silver Linings Playbook the same film?
And what about Argo and Zero Dark Thirty? Joe Queenan on why Hollywood keeps making the same films twiceA few weeks back, I felt a burning desire to see a movie about a person with deep psychological...
View ArticleSevere depression is hell – even if you are famous | Barbara Ellen
If celebrity bipolar suffering is beginning to trigger automatic compassion fatigue, that's bad for everyone's mental healthA new book, Strictly Bipolar by Darian Leader, in part examines the...
View ArticleMichael Douglas on Liberace, Cannes, cancer and cunnilingus
The actor talks about marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones, his role in Behind the Candelabra and why he's fortunate to be aliveOn the cliffs outside Cannes sits a row of green cabanas, a resting place for...
View ArticleMichael Douglas: oral sex caused my cancer
Actor reveals to the Guardian that HPV, transmitted through oral sex, was responsible for his throat cancerXan Brooks' full interview: Michael Douglas on Liberace, Cannes, cancer and cunnilingusMichael...
View ArticleMark Kermode's DVD round-up
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God; This is 40; Movie 43; F*ck for Forest; Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters; Broken CityIn the wake of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, film-maker Alex...
View ArticleLloyd Webber gives £3.5m to performing arts school
Arts Educational Schools in west London to benefit from composer's philanthropic foundationA leading school for the performing arts is to be given £3.5m from the philanthropic foundation set up by...
View ArticleLlyndy Isaf farm in Wales saved by National Trust after £1m appeal
Beautiful land and lake where wildlife thrives, and where legend says dragons fought, saved following 20,000 donationsThe National Trust has raised £1m to buy a farm encompassing a lake considered one...
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