More interestingly, the channel has also served up a batch of conspicuously female-centric pieces, albeit with mixed results. The murdered-girl story A Mother's Son felt like a series brutally ...

The screenplay, co-written with Berlin Babylon creator Hendrik Handloegten, plays a little fast and loose with history. Invited to celebrate the centenary of Goethe by giving a lecture tour, Mann was ...

Then we flashed back several hours to see the soldier, Shaun Emery (Callum Turner), winning his appeal against his conviction for murdering an insurgent in Afghanistan, because of flawed video ...

In the sob-story role of the widowed cashier in “the cage” is Sheridan Smith, a dab hand at playing women in extremis. But here she is a complex blend of she-wolf protecting her two children and ...

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 ...

Many epic biopics make a messy spread of their protagonist's life (the overrated Oppenheimer is a prime example). Not this ...

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 ...

Music can be a life-healing catalyst, the untrammelled essence of heart and mind conveyed human and raw from the soul. There’s magic in that. Alternately, there’s singing, “Lost in the valley of the ...

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 ...

A tray of water, a metallic plate piled with salt, a bubble-producing plastic stick. The kind of tat that looks so cheap you ...

'You get to the top, and you realise it’s really only the middle': Gabriel Byrne as PM Tom Dawkins Thus key exchanges were rarely allowed to take more than a couple of shallow breaths before we were ...

His wife Rachel has recently died, leaving him with teenage daughter Kim (Chloe Sweetlove) to bring up and battling a serious alcohol problem. When in doubt he’s liable to reach for his hip flask, and ...