Curtain Call — Culture, film, music, and TV.
What’s the view from your sofa? Big screen, subwoofer and speakers – and that’s only for football! I use my iPad for everything else. I’m decorating my son’s room at the moment and I asked him the other day, “Do you want…
My upcoming thriller, Hunting Alice Bell, is about mistaken identity. But not quite in the usual way. We live in an age where technology has given all of us the power to present any way we want. But what if it’s other…
Sharing drinks with the crew of Artemis II, who travelled around the moon and back earlier this year, I found myself standing next to the pilot, Victor Glover. Stuck for chat with the man who has flown further than any…
“No, no, no, no!” he says, tutting his way to my workstation to inspect, owl-like spectacles enhancing a look of benevolent erudition, his posh Yorkshire drawl now delivered softly at 33rpm. Forget everything your mother…
“I have an ambivalent feeling about being on camera,” he says later. “I do have a show-off gene, but also, even having my photo taken – it feels weird.” But luckily, alongside him today is comedian and actor Diane Morgan…
No, this city is theirs. While the male characters in This City Is Ours are front and centre, it’s the crime drama’s female protagonists who more often than not grab and drive the action. Their characterisation adds to…
As a sensitive young boy, Alex Hassell dreamed of starring in musicals, and walked around his Essex village dressed as Bugsy Malone in a charity shop suit and fedora. He went on to have a moderately successful career in…
Meanwhile, since his breakthrough in Finding Neverland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Freddie Highmore has juggled films with lead roles in US TV shows Bates Motel and The Good Doctor. They’re united in Amazon’s…
"Everybody knows everything about me from about 2004 when we started Strictly ,” explains Anton Du Beke from behind the piano in his enormous living room. “Everything that’s worth reading, they’ve read. "And even when I…
The Steve Albini recording of “Dig For Fire” was recorded in late 1987 during the sessions for Surfer Rosa and sounds far away from the version released three years later. “Go Man Go” is a Black Francis and Kim Deal…