The Little Foxes review: Just in time for Christmas, a back-stabbing family feud, writes PATRICK MARMION
The Little Foxes (Young Vic, London) Verdict: Sibling cesspit Anne-Marie Duff has become widely celebrated as the mousey housewife who roared in the hilariously chaotic revenge comedy Bad…
PATRICK MARMION reviews The Tempest: Tempest meets Alien… but Sigourney has no chance to weave her magic
The Tempest Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London Great excitement this week as Hollywood veteran Sigourney Weaver teleported into London to make her long-overdue West End debut. And what…
PATRICK MARMION reviews Spend Spend Spend: Car-crash life of pools winner Viv hits the jackpot (almost)
Blazing a trail… a freewheeling new take on War and Peace Spend Spend Spend (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester) Verdict: Cautionary fiscal tale Before you get any deeper into…
Paddington In Peru review: Our favourite bear’s third adventure is a whisker behind its predecessor but it still pushes the boat out… all the way down the Amazon, says BRIAN VINER
The honey has finally run out for Winnie-the-Pooh. According to the latest poll on this hairiest of questions, Britain’s favourite fictional bear is now the one with the…
BRIAN VINER reviews Mufasa: The Lion King: Spectacular, but this Lion King isn’t a whisker on the original
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (U, 70 mins) Mustafa: The Lion King (PG, 118 mins) Verdict: Does the job Amazingly, three decades have pᴀssed since we first…
An absorbing and triumphant biopic focusing on Bob Dylan’s arrival in New York: BRIAN VINER reviews A Complete Unknown
A Complete Unknown (15, 140 minutes) Verdict: A triumphant Bob Dylan biopic Bob Dylan fans will instantly recognise the тιтle of James Mangold’s splendid biopic, in which the great…
The oddly erotic, holiday box office hit drenched in bloody dread: BRIAN VINER’S review of the nightmarish new Dracula movie
When a new year in the cinema begins with a film as steeped in horror as Nosferatu, as saturated in dread, it feels worryingly like a harbinger of…
BRIAN VINER reviews A Real Pain: A masterpiece from the heir to Woody Allen
Babygirl (18, 114 minutes) A Real Pain (15, 90 minutes) Verdict: Truly wonderful Jesse Eisenberg has said that he was inspired to write A Real Pain after coming…
ALISON BOSHOFF: Damian Lewis leads backlash by unpaid cast of Jimmy Carr’s Downton spoof
Trump won’t force me out, says Domingo Disaster and recriminations flew on the set of Downton Abbey spoof Fackham Hall, written by comic Jimmy Carr and starring Damian…
ALISON BOSHOFF: Are the stars finally about to align for Mamma Mia 3?
Extreme dad dancing Mamma Mia! Here they (finally) go again. Producer Judy Craymer has been talking for nearly five years about making Mamma Mia 3 – following the…