Great (and not so great) bands reforming, either in the studio or in the live arena, is something of a trend at the moment.

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Following the success of its screen version of Michael Connelly’s veteran detective Harry Bosch, starring Titus Welliver, ...

Lovers of a particular novel, when it’s adapted as a movie, often want book and movie to fit together as a hand in a glove.

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Having played Sherlock Holmes’s politically involved older brother Mycroft in the BBC’s hit crime series Sherlock, Mark ...

At first sight it seemed that Clonter Opera’s decision to tackle Tosca this year might be a leap too far. Its once-a-year complete production, dedicated to nurturing emerging talent in the security of ...

Now 45 years in the past, its dazzling star gone a decade or so, The Long Good Friday is a monument of British cinema. Its ...

It started like Sunday afternoon band concert on a seaside promenade, a massive ensemble playing it light. But while there ...

Comedian Tony Hancock’s vertiginous rise and fall is neatly traced in the two films he completed in the early 1960s. The ...

As a sometime writer of Poirot, Sherlock and Christmas ghost stories, Mark Gatiss is no stranger to enigmatic crimes and ...

There is a freshness about a show by Youssou N’Dour that never seems to lose its glow. He still has one of the great voices ...