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Cinema
Redoubtable is an amusing and self-aware take on the life of one of France's most celebrated auteurs
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Famed all over South East Asia, Bangkok's high fashion Greyhound Cafe comes to London with modern Thai-style cooking, a design-led interior and hip play list
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Roll up for babka, shakshuka and the best pitta, The Good Egg brings Middle Eastern/Jewish food to Soho with chutzpah
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Food & Drink
Jean-Georges Vongerichten, the world-renowned Michelin-starred chef, returns to the London restaurant scene
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TV
Best-selling British novelist Patrick Gale's novels are being adapted for the BBC this summer in this heart-breaking study of male intimacy
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Cinema
Comedy Snatched sees Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn take the mother of all family vacations
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Cinema
Anne Hathaway stars as a struggling writer by day and party-girl turned monster by night in this Colossal hit of a film
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Theatre
Wonderland returns to the Vaults below Waterloo station for an immersive theatre adventure inspired by Lewis Carroll's classic children's story
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Theatre
Irony and black comedy return in this revival of Dead Funny, starring Katherine Parkinson and Ralf Little
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Pizza Pilgrims brings trademark sourdough crusts and flavoursome, balanced toppings to the West End
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Theatre
Les Blancs, Lorraine Hansberry's searing play about racial tension and revolution in an African country is revived with clout
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Theatre
Owen Sheers explores the trauma of contemporary warfare with the lyricism of the WWI poets in his play Pink Mist
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Theatre
WEST END TRANSFER: Martin McDonagh's gripping new play, Hangmen, is just as sparky on the West End after sellout success at Royal Court
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Theatre
Penny Skinner's new play is a roaring, rousing portrait of a woman who refuses to be sidelined
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Cinema
Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara are nothing short of hypnotising in Todd Hayne's electrifying period film Carol. Here's our review from London Film Festival 2015
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Food & Drink
We visit the latest from Marcus Wareing: Tredwell's Restaurant review, Seven Dials
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Cinema
Nicholas Hytner's screen adaptation of Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van is witty, charming and heart-warming, with a mighty performance from Maggie Smith
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Food
REVIEW: Rudie's Jamaican restaurant - London gets a new high-end Jamaican joint
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Exclusive
Shakespeare at the National Theatre gets a mystical makeover in a fresh, As You Like it with a radiant performance from Rosalie Craig
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Theatre
Richard Eyre and Simon Russell Beale join forces in Ian Kelly's new comedy which brings a riot of theatricality and hilarity to the West End
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Theatre
The Hairy Ape, Eugene O'Neill's abstract play about a rich girl and ship's stoker, is revived with vigour at the Old Vic
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Theatre
Barrie Keeffe's 1977 Barbarians play is a harrowing look at hard times and bad boys, made fresh in site-specific production
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Cinema
Patricio Guzmán's emotive documentary The Pearl Button is a beautiful and haunting new masterpiece. Here's our review from London Film Festival 2015
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Food
We review Canto Corvino: East London's newest (and best) modern Italian
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Food
We review The Hour Glass, South Kensington's latest pub
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Theatre
A new play by Christopher Shinn, Teddy Ferrara uses LGBT students' suicides to give a nuanced exploration homophobia
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Food
We review Viertfood, a delicious addition to the Soho food scene
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Kids
Not for the faint-hearted: this raw and powerful play by the National Youth Theatre explores the blurred lines of sexual consent and coming of age
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Cinema
Director Jake Gavin's Hector comes to cinemas this December: read our Hector film review.
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Theatre
After tepid reviews at the St James Theatre, play inspired by visionary fashion designer Alexander McQueen closes early on the West End
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Theatre
Trevor Nunn brings Shakespeare's histories to life with epic drama in this engrossing triliogy of plays
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Food
We still dreaming about their pizza; Homeslice Fitzrovia knocked it out of the park