His wife Rachel has recently died, leaving him with teenage daughter Kim (Chloe Sweetlove) to bring up and battling a serious alcohol problem. When in doubt he’s liable to reach for his hip flask, and ...

The plot has the powerful simplicity of a traditional folk tale: Mac plays Girl (女), a 22-year-old British-Chinese who is about to leave home and move in with her Scottish girlfriend Naomi. She hasn’t ...

The scenario Pickett has devised shouldn’t work; in fact, it raises one too many questions to be wholly successful, notably: who has been fighting this civil war? On one side is tattooed, bearded, ...

Three co-workers in a (non-unionised, natch) workplace are vying for two jobs, every team required to drop one in three of its headcount. In case you’re thinking that such strategies are no longer a ...

Stevie Wonder absolutely matches such expectations and delivers: he exudes warmth, bonhomie, grace and serious respect for the musicians around him. He is also still remarkably sprightly for a man of ...

Their task isn’t made easier by the fact that the truck is being monitored by a drone overhead, but Lana cooks up an ingenious ruse to stop the vehicle inside a tunnel and replace the driver with one ...

The set up is simple: 40-year-old Alice and her estranged younger sister Abigail are meeting for the first time in seven years in a sparsely furnished bungalow in Florida. Alice is a ...

With hindsight, and given the country’s postwar history, Sergiu made the right choice. Demostene reclaims the tie and the penniless Sergiu heads for Bucharest on the back of a cart. As played by Ben ...

Evidently the cast worked hard on their Newfoundlandese, and it helps to create the bleak and mysterious atmosphere of Snook’s Arm and its barren surroundings. At the heart of the drama is fisherman ...

The production’s budget shows from the off. The Blisses’ riverside home in Cookham, Berks has become a grand mansion with chandeliers and modish Italianate furniture (set design is by Frankie Bradshaw ...

Even though they were playing on a Sunday evening and their music might best be described as “niche”, Test Dept still pulled in a more than respectable audience of predominantly 50-something blokes – ...

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 ...