by admin | Apr 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
Meet René Redzepi, Head Chef at Noma (three times voted Best Restaurant in the World). The next dish he cooks for you might involve ants The day I’m to meet René Redzepi, he cooks a disastrous omelette live on the BBC’s Saturday Kitchen. With...
by admin | Apr 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
This week the star of cult zombie drama The Walking Dead turns leading man in BBC One’s new drama The 7.39 It’s been some year for David Morrissey, who despite being as affable as they come off screen, excels on screen as brutal characters with a glimmer...
by admin | Apr 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
As we approach the 20th anniversary of his death, one writer recalls a memorable encounter with the doomed Nirvana frontman It’s nearly 2am on 24 July 1993 and Kurt Cobain is lying on my king-size bed in a tacky Manhattan hotel. His tiny frame takes up virtually...
by admin | Apr 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
As one of America’s great crime authors and a chief scriptwriter on The Wire and Treme, George Pelecanos is at home on the wrong side of the tracks George Pelecanos novels come with the same Stephen King quote emblazoned on their covers year after year:...
by admin | Apr 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
For years, directors wondered why British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor wasn’t a major star. His leading performance in 12 Years a Slave, the slavery epic directed by Steve McQueen, is about to change the script I am waiting in the lobby of central London’s...
by admin | Apr 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
Sir David Attenborough’s new 3D TV spectacular reanimates the Natural History Museum’s extinct species – and proves there’s life in another old dinosaur, too In David Attenborough’s New Year’s Day extravaganza, Natural History...
by admin | Apr 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
An illuminating telephone conversation with the star of The Deer Hunter — and a new BBC drama directed by David Hare Many great men have been floored by Christopher Walken. Take Sean Penn, who worked with him on the 1986 film At Close Range and who doesn’t...
by admin | Apr 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
In August this year, Variety, the American trade entertainment magazine, ran two features with dramatic headlines. The first appeared alarmist: ‘LA mayor declares state of emergency as movie and TV production flees Hollywood’. Until, that is, the second...
by admin | Mar 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
“Both live in complete fantasy worlds with inappropriate senses of their own importance” 3 December 2012 The late journalist Keith Waterhouse once wrote that Brighton is a town that always looks as though it’s helping the police with their...
by admin | Mar 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
From Michelangelo to Giotto, the exquisite art in one of the world’s most beautiful cities costs nothing – if you know where to look. Our writer goes on a church crawl. 20 September 2012 Late afternoon in Florence and suddenly the sky veers from luminous...
