Category: 5. Entertainment

It is not nearly so far a journey as you’d expect between flying and frying. At 10, my father sent me down to the small youth club at the bottom of the hill behind our house in London to study judo. Our dojo master Tom must have been in his 50s…

The first, or maybe the second thing to be said about “The Artist,” a six-part comedy written and directed by Aram Rappaport, is that it streams from the Network, a free ad-supported streaming service Rappaport created to release his…

The Shakespeare drama starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley has a stellar cast but is “exploitative” and lacks subtlety – “it tugs the heartstrings and targets the tear ducts with absolute ruthlessness”.

There’s no doubt that, in many people’s…

Disgraced actor Kevin Spacey will face three more civil claims of sexual assault in London next year.

BBC News reported on Wednesday that the claims have come from three separate men, who allege the House of Cards star assaulted them…

Flesh for Frankenstein, the 1973 erotic horror film that brought the actor Udo Kier an early taste of fame, was presented in 3D, the better to make its ingeniously disgusting effects truly pop. The gory highlight showed Kier, as Baron…

My mother, Jill Freud, who has died aged 98, was a dynamic actor and producer, and the founder of one of the UK’s most cherished summer rep theatres.

On graduating from the Rada drama school in London in 1947, Jill, under the stage name Jill…

The estate of Johnny Cash is suing Coca-Cola for illegally hiring a tribute act to impersonate the late US country singer in an advertisement that plays between college football games.

The case has been filed under the Elvis Act of Tennessee, made…

Was Ron actually a fashion icon?

With everyone donning their dress robes for what was possibly the glitziest event Hogwarts had ever hosted, the Yule Ball was a mix of dazzling fashion wins and dismal fashion fails. Ron’s frothy concoction of…

EXCLUSIVE: New Zealand-produced drama series is getting a second and expanded season. The show is produced out of the Remarkable Studios facility and the Season 2 news dropped as Kiwi Prime Minister Christopher Luxon paid a visit to the…