Billie (15) Verdict: Hits all the right notes Rating: The Three Kings (PG) Verdict: A real crowd-pleaser Rating: Lennox: The Untold Story (15) Verdict: Not a knockout Rating: Of a trio of new documentaries, the pick is Billie, a truly riveting film about the great blues artist Billie Holiday, whose teenage ambition, growing up in … Read more
Industry Rating: Our Yorkshire Farm: Five Years With The Owen Family Rating: The best thing about The Apprentice, with its preening, socially inept, wannabe business moguls, is that while it might be a reality show, it isn’t anything like real life. Unless, that is, you’re a merchant banker. Industry (BBC2) is a financial drama set … Read more
Industry Rating: Our Yorkshire Farm: Five Years With The Owen Family Rating: The best thing about The Apprentice, with its preening, socially inept, wannabe business moguls, is that while it might be a reality show, it isn’t anything like real life. Unless, that is, you’re a merchant banker. Industry (BBC2) is a financial drama set … Read more
Educating Greater Manchester Rating: Blood Of The Clans Rating: Refreshers and Flying Saucers, Opal Fruits, Space Dust, Black Jacks Spangles and Toffos — the shelves of my school’s tuck shop were heaped with sweets, all at a penny each. Tuck shops went out of fashion along with the comic book character Billy Bunter. At … Read more
Educating Greater Manchester Rating: Blood Of The Clans Rating: Refreshers and Flying Saucers, Opal Fruits, Space Dust, Black Jacks Spangles and Toffos — the shelves of my school’s tuck shop were heaped with sweets, all at a penny each. Tuck shops went out of fashion along with the comic book character Billy Bunter. At … Read more
Vivid colours to cheer hue up! MELANIE McDONAGH reviews Howard Hodgkin’s exhibition Memories By Melanie Mcdonagh For The Daily Mail Published: 02:29 GMT, 30 October 2020 | Updated: 02:33 GMT, 30 October 2020 Howard Hodgkin: Memories (Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert) Verdict: Uplift in grey times from Britain’s master colourist Rating: Howard Hodgkin once observed that ‘art is … Read more
This Is Going To Hurt (Apollo Theatre, London) Verdict: Queasy rider Rating: The Great Gatsby (Immersive LDN) Verdict: Fizzy Fitzgerald Rating: Lone Flyer (Watermill, Newbury) Verdict: Little gem Rating: Given the fevered state of the nation, re-opening the West End with a hospital doctor who’s gone rogue was a stroke of mischievous genius. The … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, there are two sides to Bertie Carvel. One is the coldly respectable, unpleasantly pleasant, family man of Doctor Foster.
The Undoing – Sky Atlantic Rating: You have to wonder why Hugh Grant does it. The 60-year-old has been declaring airily for decades that he detests acting. It’s his favourite headline-grabber whenever an interview is flagging. ‘I hate it quite a lot, all acting,’ he bragged to Vanity Fair back in 2003, and last year he … Read more
The Undoing – Sky Atlantic Rating: You have to wonder why Hugh Grant does it. The 60-year-old has been declaring airily for decades that he detests acting. It’s his favourite headline-grabber whenever an interview is flagging. ‘I hate it quite a lot, all acting,’ he bragged to Vanity Fair back in 2003, and last year he … Read more