Of course the verdict was never in doubt. A morality tale in which the middle-aged woman who strays is punished with rape and imprisonment? Well they can put such bile and filth in fancy books for the ...

The framing device of Knight Fever – that Jazz Emu is desperate to be given the only knighthood awarded by the King this year, and is afraid Clarkson will snaffle it – is laughably shonky but shores ...

It no doubt helps, too, that Heart Beats Strong draws so clearly on personal experience: its three chopped-up storylines came from a challenge that the three members of newly formed Kickdrum – Alfie ...

Then we flashed back several hours to see the soldier, Shaun Emery (Callum Turner), winning his appeal against his conviction for murdering an insurgent in Afghanistan, because of flawed video ...

Ballerinas wore two-pieces and hats in public, smiled, and said little. Pure Fifties. But Seymour was pure Sixties, and then some Besides, there were just so many good girls about in ballet, or they ...

The screenplay, co-written with Berlin Babylon creator Hendrik Handloegten, plays a little fast and loose with history. Invited to celebrate the centenary of Goethe by giving a lecture tour, Mann was ...

Mud opens fully submerged, with “Bottle” depicting self-destructive behaviour and desperation: a motif that’s continued through “Champagne” with its startling imagining of someone having to “choke me ...

It is Christmas 1975, and Capote’s stellar career has just been partially eclipsed by a scandal of his own making, when he allowed Esquire magazine to publish an extract from his unfinished new novel, ...

It’s taken me decades to get to grips with Elgar’s Violin Concerto, my Damascene conversion taking place during an accomplished amateur performance I took part in, everything clicking into place ...

Danceteria is, then, a celebration of long-ago dissolution, the glamour and sleaze of a city that no longer exists. Tonally, it's similar to Madonna’s most recent album; indeed, she receives a mention ...

However, this album is no cohesive symphonic work that mirrors the likes of Mozart, Philip Glass or even George Gershwin but rather consists of short, ambient and atmospheric pieces that fall more ...