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Shrieks in Why Did I Get Married Too?

Tyler Perry’s latest domestic drama Why Did I Get Married Too? presents us with four black American males in crisis with their wives

Dinner for Schmucks is truly awful

Dinner for Schmucks is a truly terrible comedy has Paul Rudd invited to a dinner by his bosses at which the dumbest guest will be the attraction

Jonah Hex is one hell of a weird Western

Jimmy Hayward’s screen version of the popular DC comic Jonah Hex looks like an attempt to make a spaghetti Western in America

Robert Plant is a king on the country road

If only more musicians would grow old like Robert Plant. Acknowledging that heavy rock is best left to the kids

Sound Check: The Nick Hornby sessions

Bestselling author Nick Hornby’s love of pop is well documented — now he is putting his own words to someone else’s music

Amanda Nevill is fighting for British film

Today the film-going experience has to be fabulous, says BFI director Amanda Nevill — which is why she’s on a crusade to make up the £50m public funding lost for a new national film centre in London

Who's the daddy in The Switch?

The Switch is no great shakes but it sure is better than some of the awful rom-coms we’ve been treated to recently

Certified Copy is worth a dozen dumb rom-coms

Abbas Kiarostami’s enigmatic romance confirms he is one of cinema’s greats — but it’s the performance from Binoche that gives Certified Copy real heart

Clybourne Park is the funniest play of the year

Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park is an achingly intelligent study of middle-class hypocrisy

Scouting For Girls are having the time of their lives

South Ruislip lads Scouting For Girls took time out of their busy schedule to talk London, fame and a 'weird but amazing' collaboration with Kit Kat

Proms 2010: Europe unites with purpose

Who said today’s youth has the attention span of a gnat? Incomplete it may be but Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony demands 60 minutes of focused attention

First review: Miral is a moving portrayal of life in Israel for Palestinian women

Julian Schnabel, the New York painter and film maker, has studied victims and outsiders in each of his last three films. Miral is no different

Look on the bright side, Eels

Though still uncommunicative and inclined towards heavy, distorted rock, Eels' Mark ‘E’ Everett came close to being perky

Secret’s out — Life really is rosy in the Tangerine Dream Café

Tangerine Dream Café at the Chelsea Physic Garden falls under the “secret” category, in terms of its hidden location in London’s oldest botanic garden

Tom Aikens is back without a bang

Tom Aikens' resurrected empire is expanding once more, with a new Tom’s Kitchen at Somerset House, selling posh comfort food to the West End masses

Michael Gambon: I feel wrong if I don't plan a play a year

After a mystery illness and his dramatic withdrawal from Alan Bennett’s The Habit of Art last year, Michael Gambon returns to the stage in Krapp’s Last Tape

Venice Film Festival: Natalie Portman bewitches as a dancer with a dark side in Black Swan

Psychological thriller Black Swan, which opens the Venice Film Festival, is Darren Aronofsky's most complete and convincing work yet

Jazzing things up at 1 Lombard Street

Jazz, dinner and Grade II listed surroundings make Saturday nights at 1 Lombard Street deliciously charming

On your bike for London's Sky Ride

For those cautious of cycling on London's busy roads, it's worth getting on your bike this Sunday September 5

Proms 2010: Power and pantomine for Hansel and Gretel

In the case of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, there were even some theatrical coups that Glyndebourne didn’t get

Oikos is lost on the eco trail

Developed at the National Theatre Studio, Oikos is a study of rancid domesticity that’s also an apocalyptic vision of environmental meltdown

Fatboy Slim steals the show at South West Four

With big names on the bill South West Four was destined to be epic and (mostly) did not disappoint

The theatre company that could provide the blueprint for life after the arts cuts

Jeremy Hunt and Ed Vaizey are keen to move the debate on from cutting, towards encouraging arts companies to think about ways they can obtain philanthropic support

Heard the one about Zadie Smith’s kid brother, Doc Brown?

Zadie Smith became a globally acclaimed novelist, her brother was in the dark world of rap. Now, with the help of his sister, Doc Brown has started a new life — as a comic

Keith Lockhart goes to Hollywood at Prom

The BBC Concert Orchestra's Prom, its first under its new principal conductor Keith Lockhart, hinted at its range
 

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