Along the way, though, he’s made quite a few really great records and remained absolutely, in every possible way, committed to the bit. So it is here, on his first album in 11 years, in which he doesn ...

Oldman's Cheever is little more than a cameo, but his performance is genuinely touching – poignant and witty, appreciative of the beautiful young protagonist (Celeste Dalla Porta) but detached from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Will Sharpe plays Mozart with a blend of reckless self-indulgence, sexual promiscuity and child-like enthusiasm, even if he doesn’t stretch to the manic extremes of Tom Hulce’s performance in Milos ...

'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 ...

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 ...

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 ...