Polite Society review: A bold and interesting film debut April 28, 2023 Bridgerton actor Priya Kansara plays Ria, a young woman from a traditional British-Asian family with the less-than-traditional dream of being a stunt woman. Older sister Lena (Ritu Arya) helps her with her passion, but that bond seems to be in jeopardy when she embarks on a whirlwind romance with the family-approved Salim (Akshay Khanna). Enlisting [...]
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: Another cosy British drama April 28, 2023 Having stolen art to highlight the plight of the elderly in The Duke, Jim Broadbent is back being a lovable eccentric in this adaptation of Rachel Joyce’s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. He plays the title role of Harold, a retired man lacking purpose until he receives a letter from an old friend in [...]
Air film review: Ben Affleck’s feel-good Nike movie April 27, 2023 Good Will Hunting besties Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reteam for the story behind the Air Jordan shoe, a product that still is the gold standard among sneaker heads but had a rocky road to infamy. This biopic follows Sonny Vaccaro (Damon), an executive at the struggling Nike brand who believes he has found basketball’s [...]
Jerry Springer’s London: Born in Highgate Tube station during WWII April 27, 2023 It seems incongruous that Jerry Springer, legendary US talk show host, was British-born during the Second World War. But Springer, who has died aged 79, lived his first days in a subterranean war bunker during German bombing. He was born in Highgate Tube station, which had been refashioned as a bomb shelter as many of [...]
Jerry Springer dead: London born legendary talk show host dead at 79 April 27, 2023 Jerry Springer has died aged 79. The London-born American talk show host became famous in the 1990s for his eponymous talk show where families would go in front of a studio audience to discuss their issues live. Springer would end each show with an inspirational word of wisdom about how we live our lives. The [...]
How to blow up a Pipeline review: Vital but underdeveloped climate drama April 27, 2023 Headlines about how doomed we all are due to climate change have sadly started to have less of an impact, as we all get more fatigued by the endless bad news. Thankfully, creatives have been trying to make the same points in different ways. Netflix satire Don’t Look Up imagined the life of a beleaguered [...]
I tried living like the King ahead of the Coronation – was it worth it? April 27, 2023 St James’s tailors dress King Charles. Ahead of the Coronation, our man Adam Bloodworth went to find out whether living like a King is all it’s cracked up to be Rumour has it that princes William and Harry used to go to St James’s barbers Truefitt & Hill for their haircuts. They were taken there [...]
Dixon and Daughters at National Theatre: A harrowing tale of abuse April 27, 2023 It’s easy to get sniffy about soap operas but there’s an undeniable value to those nightly instalments of drama that shine a powerful light on the minutia of modern life. Dixon and Daughters, a new play by Deborah Bruce, brings to mind the very best of soap opera, from its domestic setting to the complex [...]
Draft rules for UK gambling sector expected to be published today April 27, 2023 The long-awaited gambling white paper setting out government proposals to make regulation of the sector “fit for the digital age” is expected to be published today. Campaigners are hopeful it will include plans for affordability checks and the introduction of a statutory levy on gambling operators to pay for research, education and treatment of problem gambling. Other measures hoped to feature [...]