Review at a glance N one of The Expendables films are strictly necessary, are they? The clue is in the title. But instalment number four of the elite mercenaries series manages to not be entirely extraneous to our entertainment needs, disarming as often with easy charm, as with a high-kickContinue Reading
O livia Colman has told how she “held back tears” while lending her voice to a new short film to raise awareness of dementia. The Oscar winner, who played the daughter of a man with dementia who refuses assistance in the film The Father, is helping Alzheimer’s Research UK showContinue Reading
T he BBC has just announced the six celebrities who will star in the second season of its Louis Theroux Interviews… series. This year the docuseries will see Theroux travel from New York to France, and from Glastonbury to Kent, to spend time with boxer Anthony Joshua, actor Ashley Walters,Continue Reading
Review at a glance I n Lauren Gunderson’s polished, pacey but sporadically absurd play a programmer called Merril constructs an AI model of her younger sister Angie, who went missing and was presumed murdered a year before, using her social media data, messages, purchasing history and so on. No prizesContinue Reading
Review at a glance “ Inconceivable.” “Incomprehensible.” Expert after expert in this new documentary struggles to put into words the fate that befell Lin Russell and her two young daughters. One horrible afternoon in July 1996, Lin, 45, and six-year-old daughter Megan were found bludgeoned to death in the heartContinue Reading
The Evening Standard Theatre Podcast headed west this week, well west London, for shows at the Lyric Hammersmith and the Bush Theatre. Actor Paul Bazely – recently seen in blockbuster Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves – tells us about the challenges of playing one of the 20th century’s mostContinue Reading
A sacred religious relic believed to be plundered by British soldiers from Ethiopia is being returned to the African country after being saved by a London-based academic. The 19th century tabot, a type of altar tablet from the Christian Orthodox Ethiopian Church, is regarded as so holy it cannot beContinue Reading
Review at a glance M ike Birbiglia is what I call a straddler. Part stand-up, part storyteller. The Brooklyn-based monologist specialises in autobiographical pieces, putting his whimsical imprint on this distinctive hybrid. And he doesn’t shy away from big topics. His latest show, The Old Man & The Pool, tacklesContinue Reading
N SYNC has teased the release of new music for the first time in more than 20 years. The band, made up of once-teen heartthrobs JC Chasez, Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, and Justin Timberlake, started making hits in 1995 and soon became one of the biggest music groupsContinue Reading
I f an Elton John-scored musical version of fashion comedy The Devil Wears Prada seems like the kind of heady (and improbable) collaboration you and your mates might dream up after your second negroni on a Friday night, you’re not alone. But this incredible match up is no longer aContinue Reading
