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 ...

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

The first rule for brown people, says the main character – played by BAFTA-winner Adeel Akhtar – in this highly entertaining ...

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

Wheels of Fire was Cream’s third album. Issued in the US in June 1968 and in the UK two months later, it was a double LP. One ...

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

A glamorous black woman sits in a Forties bar under a Vichy cop’s gaze, cigarette tilted at an angle, till two male ...

The auditorium and arena were packed – and the stage even more so, bursting at the seams with players and singers: the ...

Before Luigi Illica wrote the libretti for Puccini’s Tosca and Madama Butterfly, he had joined the composer as the librettist ...

It took until the last room of her exhibition for me to gain any real understanding of the work of Australian Aboriginal ...

What a great album – and what a great story to lift the heart in these fetid times. A story that crosses oceans and decades ...

What am I, a philosophical if not political Marxist whose hero is Antonio Gramsci, doing in Harvey Nichols buying Comme des ...