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    • Monday, 23 May, 2022
      The best of Cannes Film Festival 2022
      Three Thousand Years of Longing, Cannes review — Idris Elba’s genie casts the perfect spell

      George Miller directs Elba and a buttoned-down Tilda Swinton in a kaleidoscopic, warm-hearted fantasy epic

    • Friday, 8 March, 2019
      ReviewTelevision
      Idris Elba is a DJ in a spin in Netflix comedy Turn Up Charlie

      The actor has co-created and stars in a warmly funny mix of career crisis, cultures clash and music industry satire

    • Wednesday, 29 August, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Yardie — Idris Elba’s film is full of energy

      This thriller based in 1970s Jamaica and London is kinetic but clunky

    • Friday, 17 August, 2018
      Life & Arts
      Youth movies are evolving. And we still love them

      With Idris Elba’s ‘Yardie’ about to hit our screens, Danny Leigh muses on the strange phenomenon of the coming-of-age movie

    • Friday, 27 April, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      On digital: Molly’s Game — ‘a timely take on gender politics’

      Jessica Chastain’s razor-sharp voiceover links twisting plot lines, shifting timeframes and pacy exchanges

    • Thursday, 5 October, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      The Mountain Between Us — Kate Winslet and Idris Elba crash in plane drama

      The stars can’t lift this turgid effort from director Hany Abu-Assad

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Finding Dory: film review — ‘Bright simplicity and subtle sophistication’

      There are few dud jokes, if any, in this long-awaited sequel to ‘Finding Nemo’

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Star Trek Beyond — film review: ‘Brisk and fun’

      The new film combines spectacular digital effects with affectionate nods to the TV series

    • Thursday, 14 July, 2016
      UK retail results
      SuperGroup rewards investors as profits jump

      Owner of Superdry brand pays out special dividend on back of rising revenues

    • Friday, 27 May, 2016
      Janan Ganesh
      Put tired James Bond out of his misery

      Notebook: Why such overhyped kitsch should not speak for a culture as creative as ours

    • Thursday, 14 April, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      The Jungle Book — film review: ‘Dazzled, delighted’

      Jon Favreau’s remake of the Disney classic has vocal star turns and stunning CGI

    • Wednesday, 23 March, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Zootropolis — film review: ‘Zingy jokes, elastic animation’

      Disney’s new animated comedy satisfyingly punctures politically-correct pieties

    • Friday, 27 November, 2015
      UK equities
      SuperGroup’s move upmarket pays dividends

      FTSE 100 slips 0.3%, or 17.98 points, to 6,375.15

    • Friday, 9 October, 2015
      ReviewLife & Arts
      John Newman: Revolve — review

      With frantic stompers and yowled vocals, the retro-soul singer ups the pace on this follow-up to his debut album

    • Thursday, 8 October, 2015
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Beasts of No Nation — film review

      Cary Fukunaga’s film is a traumatic portrayal of civil war and child soldiers in Africa

    • Thursday, 11 June, 2015
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Second Coming — film review

      A woman is pregnant with no biological father in Debbie Tucker Green’s mystifying, spellbinding film

    • Wednesday, 6 May, 2015
      Retail & Consumer industry
      SuperGroup’s sales rebound

      Fashion retailer’s annual revenues up 12.5% as strategy shake-up pays off

    • Thursday, 26 March, 2015
      Retail & Consumer industry
      SuperGroup surges on strategy makeover

      Shares rise after retailer pledges to pay first dividend and take Superdry brand upmarket

    • Sunday, 26 October, 2014
      InterviewThe Monday Interview
      John Caudwell: a billionaire on a budget

      The charity-focused tycoon is camping out in a mansion, upset by the plight of his old company

    • Friday, 2 May, 2014
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom – DVD review

      ‘An incredible true story that inspired the world’ - but how to do justice to it in film?

    • Thursday, 2 January, 2014
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Film review – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

      A biopic that erases controversy and idiosyncrasy from the great man’s life

    • Friday, 8 November, 2013
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Pacific Rim – DVD review

      No skimping on the fisticuffs as robots unite against armoured creatures which look like the contents of an angry bouillabaisse

    • Friday, 12 October, 2012
      Life & Arts
      Dramatic differences

      The issue of whether directors only cast black actors when the script says black remains

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