Before the film won a pair of Oscar statuettes, it created lively debates around mental illness upon its release last year. And now Todd Phillips’s DC origins film Joker, starring Academy Award winner Joaquin Phoenix, is again the subject of debate, thanks to some loaded comments from Seven auteur David Fincher. Fincher, 58, spoke with … Read more
While Betrayal starring Nancy Carroll and Edward Bennett doesn’t have the emotional punch of last year’s revival, it is directed with admirable clarity By Robert Gore-Langton for Event Magazine Published: 22:00 GMT, 24 October 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 24 October 2020 Betrayal Theatre Royal Bath … Read more
Betrayal (Theatre Royal, Bath) Rating: Verdict: Pinteresting Love From A Stranger (Theatre Royal, Windsor) Rating: Verdict: Who do you think you are kidding Mr Covid? A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Flute Theatre (flutetheatre.co.uk) Rating: Verdict: Shakespeare for autistic people Harold Pinter is a good choice for socially distanced theatre. The characters in his plays usually like … Read more
As a Brexit supporter, I naively thought that the City would find ways of emerging relatively unscathed from leaving the European Union. Even if there were an exit of some jobs and asset management mandates to Frankfurt, Paris and Amsterdam, the trading and innovative skills of Britain, in areas such as financial technology, would keep … Read more
She announced her split from TV chef Phil Vickery in January after 20 years together. But it seems as though all is not well between them in 62-year-old Fern Britton’s latest social media activity is anything to go by. On Wednesday, she retweeted a post about ‘betrayal, falling out and being used’ and wrote that … Read more
When my son sat GCSE mocks a few weeks into the spring term, I didn’t pay much attention — nor, I rather fear, did he. He was doing two of them early, in strong subjects for him: history and PE. His plan — like that of so many teenagers — was to treat the mocks … Read more
As we were preparing to return from holiday last weekend, it suddenly became clear to me what our three children were really craving. Normally, they would be downcast, clamouring for a few more days of fun, swimming and indulgence in the sun. But this year was different. They were glad to be going home and … Read more
Last Friday afternoon, aesthetician Becky Gencer was double checking that everything in her immaculate home beauty salon was scrubbed to within an inch of its life and ready to welcome her first clients the next morning. While hairdressers have been allowed to work since July 4, and manicurists were given the go-ahead on July 13, … Read more
Last week, Karl Stefanovic walked off the set of the Today Show after finding a seemingly ‘cruel’ tweet his co-host Allison Langdon made calling him ‘lazy’. But after it was revealed to be a prank pulled by the father-of-four, it appears Allison, 41, decided to give him a taste of his own medicine. On Wednesday, … Read more
Big Brother’s ultimate betrayal: Sophie Budack is evicted despite her ‘top four pact’ – as she plots her revenge with Kieran Davidson in the White Room By Candice Jackson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 12:07 BST, 14 July 2020 | Updated: 12:09 BST, 14 July 2020 Sophie Budack formed a secret alliance with three other … Read more