Directed by Danny Boyle, written by Richard Curtis and with a soundtrack based on the songs of the world’s most legendary pop group, what could ...

Rocketman is the story of Elton John (or Reg Dwight to give him his name when he was a piano-obsessed small boy in Pinner, Middlesex). If one reads ...

This rattlingly vibrant film was an early…er, favourite to scoop up many honours in the upcoming film awards season, not least for its leading l...

The Martin Amis novel, London Fields, is one of my favourite books. That is not a universally shared view. It was regarded as a serious contender for ...

You would be hard pressed to find a more quintessentially English film than this. Based on the Booker-shortlisted novel of the same name by Penelope F...

Oscar Wilde wrote: “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” Whichever way way round you want to view this one, the news that t...

Gary Oldman has apparently said he smoked 12 cigars a day for three months in order to achieve the right rasping sound of Winston Churchill’s vo...

A million years ago, Clive James (in my humble opinion perhaps the best television critic of my lifetime), admitted to his infatuation with the Ameri...

Just like a London bus, you wait ages for a new tennis film and then two come along almost at once. At the end of November there’ll be the Batt...