Film reviews and cinema listings from Your Local Guardian

Holding the whip hand

Whipping em into shape: Richard Wilson plays the Tory chief whip in Steve Thompson's political satire.

3:15pm Thursday 27th September 2007

Richard Wilson is eating cherries. I don't know why I mention it, except that cherries seem a rather whimsical snack for an actor best known for his role as an old curmudgeon.

Neil Pearson is used to working with the best - Leonard Rossiter, John Cleese, Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant among them - so when he pays tribute to his latest co-stars in Old Times, which comes to Richmond Theatre next week, it is high praise indeed.

Electra shock

5:26pm Thursday 22nd March 2007

Those of you hailing from Leatherhead, you will be flattered to learn that the town has been selected - against some pretty stiff competition across the country - to be the basis of a new star-studded film that hits the nation's cinemas this week.

What a B'Stard

11:47am Thursday 15th March 2007

"I'm not very good at interviews," says Rik Mayall, as we sit down to discuss the latest tour of The New Statesman stage show.

A pair of jokers

10:54am Tuesday 6th March 2007

So who has The Last Laugh when the poster boys for the old and new schools of British comedy join forces? Nancy Groves finds out.

Trigger happy

4:42pm Thursday 15th February 2007

My first thought on seeing the promo material for new comedy The Last Laugh: what the Dickens are Trigger and Tim doing at Richmond Theatre? (writes Nancy Groves).