Comedian Tony Hancock’s vertiginous rise and fall is neatly traced in the two films he completed in the early 1960s. The ...

Following the success of its screen version of Michael Connelly’s veteran detective Harry Bosch, starring Titus Welliver, ...

It started like Sunday afternoon band concert on a seaside promenade, a massive ensemble playing it light. But while there ...

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

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 ...

Guitarist Louis Campbell and fiddle player Owen Spafford started playing together as teenagers in the National Youth Folk ...

What am I, a philosophical if not political Marxist whose hero is Antonio Gramsci, doing in Harvey Nichols buying Comme des Garçons linen jackets, Church brogues and Mulberry shades? It’s 1987 and I ...

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

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 ...

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

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