One brief, passing shot in the opening scene of Radioactive, the new biopic of the scientist Marie Curie, tells its viewers everything about its subject’s lifelong obsession. As the film begins, close to the end of her story, the middle-aged Curie (played by Rosamund Pike), can be seen busying herself around her house with characteristic … Read more
Military Wives Cert: 12A, 1hr 52mins Rating: The film year is not quite the same as the calendar … Read more
Bryan Ferry SEC Armadillo, Glasgow Touring until Friday Rating: Like Bob Dylan, whose songs he sings so well, Bryan Ferry has gone from being a bit of a … Read more
He is the laser-sharp lyricist behind James Bond’s most stirring theme songs, the man with the Midas touch. The Oscar-winning writer was responsible for five 007 classics: Thunderball, Diamonds Are Forever, The Man With The Golden Gun, Surrender from Tomorrow Never Dies and The World Is Not Enough. Such is Black’s standing in Hollywood that … Read more
For a man who has sold 45 million records and performed to stadiums full of fans since the age of 17, Ronan Keating is surprisingly anxious about his latest venture. Aged 43 he is releasing an album, Twenty Twenty, which will mark two decades in the music business as a solo artist, following the break-up … Read more
Here We Are Graham Swift Scribner £14.99 Rating: Way back in 1983, Graham Swift wrote the novel – Waterland – that made him famous, or at least almost famous, as he is the Invisible Man of English Letters, rarely signing books at literary festivals or holding forth on Newsnight. Waterland was about the way human … Read more
Julia Ebner spent years undercover in every kind of extremist group but, Going Dark, her book charting those encounters fails to bring them to life By Julia Llewellyn Smith For Mail On Sunday Published: 22:02 BST, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 19:03 BST, 9 March 2020 Going Dark Julia Ebner … Read more
From Liz Hurley on My Wardrobe Malfunction to the entertaining The Reality Tea, New Scientist Weekly and RHLSTP, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 16:29 BST, 13 March 2020 My Wardrobe Malfunction Every week on this fun new podcast by Susannah Constantine (of Trinny fame), a … Read more
From Louise Erdrich’s beguiling latest to English Monsters by James Scudamore and Louise Hare’s timely debut, this week’s best new fiction By Jeffrey Burke and Anthony Gardner and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine Published: 22:00 BST, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 14 March 2020 The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich … Read more
MONDAY, MARCH 2 Back to the Good Morning Britain studios after three weeks in America, to find Susanna Reid in full-blown coronavirus alert mode. She has declared herself strictly non-contact. ‘No hugging, no kissing, no touching me whatsoever!’ she exclaimed when I entered her dressing room at 5.45am for our usual pre-show briefing and asked … Read more