Colin Firth

Memphis belle: Ginnifer Goodwin on how to dress like a film star

Twighlight at a mansion in the Hollywood Hills, and the moon and the starlets are coming out to play. Young actresses are arriving in their droves for a dinner honouring Mrs Nicola Maramotti, the First Lady of MaxMara (she...

The Romanian Lesson

Also showing at Picturehouse at FACT, Liverpool during the next seven days: Admit it – many of us think Colin Firth is just bland, middle-class totty. But, as Dave Calhoun has discovered, the former Mr Darcy has grown up and...

That scheming little MINX Maria!

When Julie Andrews played the singing nun Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music, she created one of cinema's most nauseatingly saccharine characters. She brought tinkling laughter and music into the lives of the widowed Captain...

A Black Friday Alternative: Vermeer and Duchamp at the Norton Simon

Shopping in crowded stores not your thing today? Here’s a stress-free suggestion: Stop by Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum for a closer look at a new Vermeer on loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington and catch the...

The Shawshank Redemption

Also showing at Odeon Silverlink during the next seven days: Admit it – many of us think Colin Firth is just bland, middle-class totty. But, as Dave Calhoun has discovered, the former Mr Darcy has grown up and moved on, and in...

Yes, you can go green and not sacrifice luxury

You know, guilt is a very underrated emotion. Love may make the world go around but guilt is what ties us up in knots. It is as key a parameter as gender, GDP, ideology and age. There are those—both nations and people—who are...

Kira Cochrane on why Mamma Mia is the mother of all musicals

It is, of course, possible to disagree with some of the ingredients that make up the hit film Mamma Mia! The fact that much of the acting is creakier than a barn door. That when straining for the high notes, the male lead,...

Sokari Douglas Camp exhibition "Strength of Feeling". Art Exchange, Hyson Green

Quote: "“I accuse the oil companies of practising genocide against the Ogoni" Ken Saro-Wiwa. Currently, at the New Art Exchange in Hyson Green, there is an exhibition of the acclaimed Nigerian-born artist Sokari Douglas Camp.

Ten copies of Mamma Mia sold every second

Mamma Mia! The Movie has become the UK's fastest-selling DVD. Universal Pictures said DVD sales were 1.669 million on the first dayof sale on Monday. The previous day-one sales record was held for a decade by James Cameron's...

Mamma Mia! is a feast of cheesy fun

DVD: It biffed The Dark Knight to second place at the box office and it's taken more than £57million in Britain alone so, frankly, if you've yet to see this musical, you're either a straight man or an Abba loather.