Boundary-blasting UK roots rockers Wille & The Bandits supported Samantha Fish at the Tramshed in Cardiff. They had the tough job of...

"Ticket to Paradise,” the latest vacation romp from the filmmaker Ol Parker (who penned “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” and wrote and...

The inelegantly named "Good Luck To You, Leo Grande" manages to keep one foot firmly on the floor of enjoyably progressive entertainment...

SAS: Rogue Heroes (BBC One), Steven Knight’s first time back on the BBC since the end of Peaky Blinders, is a big and brash adventure...

Alfred Hitchcock was a brilliant filmmaker, but he was undoubtedly also a complicated man with a penchant for manipulating and...

It’s been a long road for mythological musical 'Hadestown' from American singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, stopping off at a 2010 concept...

This isn’t Jason Bourne,” says a character in an early episode of Echo 3. It feels like a pointed observation, and an unusually meta...

What’s in the ether with sputtering, on-off romances at the moment? We’ve just had the Netflix adaptation of One Day. Now, there’s Victor...

The English (BBC Two), written and directed by Hugo Blick, is a revisionist western further revised. A beautifully shot exercise that’s...

Okay, let’s just get this out of the way. The musical ‘Hamilton’ is stupendously good. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s show about Alexander...

The mind-blowingly good BBC One drama "Happy Valley" comes to an end next week. But the penultimate episode has left us with an agonising...

The 26th series of Silent Witness came to a conclusion on Tuesday night and the instalment saw the team continue their high-stakes...

From Southern California, but with a sound evoking the Deep South, Robert Jon & The Wreck had flown under the radar for a decade until...

After spending six weeks glued to the TV every Sunday night as Sarah Lancashire's stunning performance made us both cry and crack up in...

The Brink’s-Mat robbery legend only grows in a diverting retelling "The Gold" (BBC One), a six-part series from Neil Forsyth, creator and...

The new BBC One crime drama "Better" is the latest in a long line to grapple with ideas of redemption, depicting a police officer long...

Darren Aronofsky is not a director who makes easy films. Whether drug addiction (Requiem for a Dream), terminal illness (The Fountain) or...

Thought you’d already seen peak Cate Blanchett? Meet cancellable conductor Lydia Tár, her finest moment yet. Chilly, severe, distancing,...

I have seen Willie and Bandits live before mostly recently supporting Samantha Fish in Cardiff and they were great and last nights...

Think male-female two-hander in academia and a pair of plays leap to mind: Oleanna and Educating Rita. Combining the lacerating fury of...