Sunday night saw the return of Jason Isaacs in crowd-pleasing form as Jackson Brodie, the flawed hero of Kate Atkinson's 'Case Histories' series.
Here, like Atkinson's earlier tales, were three intertwining stories - the first a case presented to Jackson, Philip Marlowe style, by a comely lady looking for...
(1) Comments | Posted 16 May 2013 | (13:54)
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If a film ultimately about emptiness leaves you 142 lavish minutes later feeling thoroughly depleted, does that mean it's a brilliant film? Discuss.
Baz Luhrmann's opulent version of The Great Gatsby is a faithful ode to the novel by F Scott Fitzgerald, generally held...
(1) Comments | Posted 15 May 2013 | (15:40)
'Big Bang Theory' star Alice Amter, who plays Raj's mother Mrs. Koothrappali, admits that she has found it surreal being surrounded by devoted fans on her return to her native Birmingham.
Amter, who moved to LA more than two decades ago, calls it "seriously trippy, spotting people dressed in...
(24) Comments | Posted 14 May 2013 | (21:19)
'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo' came here to British screens on Tuesday night, and hit the ground running. 10 minutes in, it felt like we'd never not known the Thompson family, with the pig-tailed munchkin at its centre.
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(12) Comments | Posted 14 May 2013 | (08:17)
Another Monday evening, another intense crime drama - this time 'The Fall', a five-parter with more than one advantage to set it apart from many of its genre.
Gillian Anderson plays Stella Gibson, a hard-edged Met detective drafted in to review a murder enquiry in Belfast where it soon...
(4) Comments | Posted 13 May 2013 | (13:19)
Bill Wyman is an affable chap, as you would expect of a wealthy, happily-married rock star, with a big house - with moat - in the country, lots of friends, children, a band of his own still on the road and even his own restaurant still going strong....
(2) Comments | Posted 13 May 2013 | (09:00)
Olivia Colman, on the night she made BAFTA history, screened on BBC1, was being fittingly reunited over on the other side with the man who can truthfully be credited her star-maker.
Paddy Considine, the man who cast Colman in 'Tyrannosaur' and showed her full acting chops which...
(4) Comments | Posted 10 May 2013 | (11:19)
The many fans of Dan Stevens, particularly when the 'Downton Abbey' star is looking lovelorn, anguished and dressed in an impeccable military jacket from around the 1910s, will be delighted to learn his first post-Downton effort is nearly here, and it finds him looking somewhat familiar.
(0) Comments | Posted 9 May 2013 | (12:44)
Tonight sees the finale of the political drama three-parter 'The Politician's Husband', with Aiden Hoynes (David Tennant) and wife Freya (Emily Watson) battling for parliamentary prowess - one for glory, one just for survival.
Last week's shocking episode found Hoynes resorting to desperate measures as he battled...
(12) Comments | Posted 8 May 2013 | (14:14)
Alison Moyet despairs of "lazy comparisons" that put her side by side with Adele - "purely for the fact that we were two fat girls singing torch songs. It always happens."
The former Yazoo singer, whose album 'the minutes' has been released to huge plaudits this week, presents...
(0) Comments | Posted 8 May 2013 | (12:43)
The director of the documentary film 'The Village at the End of the World' admits that she didn't even realise the power of the story in in her camera, until she was able to have her material translated.
As it is, what started out as an adventure for Sarah...
(10) Comments | Posted 8 May 2013 | (11:25)
The many fans of Benedict Cumberbatch - including the ones of the adoring, mostly female, variety, the 'Cumberbitches' as he reluctantly acknowledged to Graham Norton last week - need not fear... their hero has no concerns about overexposure, on screen at least.
"The only thing I fear is...
(0) Comments | Posted 7 May 2013 | (16:41)
The boys on ‘Girls’ may have all sorts of trouble dealing with the women in their lives but, in real time, Alex Karpovsky says life could not be sweeter with Lena Dunham at the helm of the hit show.
“I love Lena to death,” says...
(1) Comments | Posted 7 May 2013 | (14:48)
'Borgen' star Pilou Asbaek will no doubt disappoint the many fans of Nordic Noir, as he reveals that his character Kasper isn't central to the goings-on in the third and final series of the hit Danish political drama, back on UK screens at the...
(29) Comments | Posted 7 May 2013 | (13:37)
Bonnie Tyler is adamant that she won't be disappointed should the worst happen at the Eurovision Song Contest. She's not worried about getting nil points, and swears she'll only be disappointed about one thing.
"If I don't like what I've done, I won't be happy,"...
(0) Comments | Posted 6 May 2013 | (14:45)
Matthew McConaughey might have been forever consigned to a career as everyone's favourite rom-com rogue, if director William Friedkin hadn't happened to spot him on a TV chat show.
And when the veteran director first sent McConaughey the script for 'Killer Joe', the popular Texan hated it so much...
(0) Comments | Posted 6 May 2013 | (11:03)
The director of Matthew McConaughey’s latest film, ‘Mud’, has revealed that he had to play the long game when it came to casting the Texan star.
“I’ve been thinking about this story for over a decade, and it was always Matthew McConaughey. I wrote it in his voice," explains...
(5) Comments | Posted 6 May 2013 | (09:37)
If Matthew McConaughey's career appears to be enjoying a renaissance, one of the reasons is because, as he has revealed, he has been listening to his critics and reading what they have to say.
The actor, currently being celebrated for his very different turns in 'Mud' and 'Bernie', spent...
(2) Comments | Posted 3 May 2013 | (13:16)
Two episodes into 'The Politician's Husband', and any semblance of harmony in the home of these two Westminster luminaries was thoroughly dispelled.
Anybody who still thought that David Tennant only had the hammy Casonova or arch Time Lord in him, would have been disturbed by the acting...
(3) Comments | Posted 2 May 2013 | (12:03)
Tonight's episode of 'The Politician's Husband' finds Aiden Hoynes (David Tennant) still reeling from the brutal act of disloyalty shown him on national TV by his wife Freya (Emily Watson).
As a result of this single...

(4) Comments | Posted 19 May 2013 | (21:25)