Tim Burton finds the dark side of Alice's Wonderland

There are many film adaptations of Lewis Carroll s classic but Tim Burton has put a new spin on it by featuring an adult Alice. He and wife Helena Bonham Carter, who stars in the film, talk to Marianne Gray There must be more than 20 film versions of Le... » MORE

Russian here for some decent comfort food

Joseph Connolly experiences the glory of being a tsar and meets a Russian spy, all without leaving Chalk Farm! I went to Russia the other evening. Well all right, then… more the Chalk Farm end of Regent s Park Road. Da. Where there nestles a restaurant... » MORE

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Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin and Paula Rego: At The Foundling

BY ALISON OLDHAM Brit artists Tracey Emin, Paula Rego and Mat Collinshaw put the issues raised by the Foundling Museum – and which still continue today – into even sharper focus The most poignant items in the collection at Bloomsbury s Foundling Museum are the tokens... » MORE

REVIEW: Ghosts, Duchess Theatre near Covent Garden

Two star rating To put Ibsen into the West End shows courage, especially when it s Ghosts – a play described on its first reception as an open sewer . Ibsen may not be seen as a perpetrator of filth, but those two double o words gloom and doom stick... » MORE

REVIEW: Crouch End Festival Chorus, Haydn s Creation, Barbican

For all that it sounds like something from a Monty Python sketch, the Crouch End Festival Chorus is the most accomplished of the large-scale outer London choirs and flourishing at the moment... » MORE

REVIEW: Ghosts, Duchess Theatre near Covent Garden

Two star rating To put Ibsen into the West End shows courage, especially when it s Ghosts – a play described on its first reception as an open sewer . Ibsen may not be seen as a perpetrator of filth, but those two double o words gloom and doom stick... » MORE

Tolstoy’s life comes from Russia with love

The Last Station (15) Director Michael Hoffman Starring James McAvoy, Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti, Anne-Marie Duff 112 mins Two star rating Towards the end of his life Tolstoy (Plummer) renounced private property and advocated cha... » MORE

Triumph forged from a human tragedy

Thousands of babies spend their lives in appalling conditions in filthy Russian baby houses with little food and no toys. But for one child at least, this appalling beginning has a happy ending. Bridget Galton reports AS the trailing spouse of a... » MORE

Lose yourself in the misty magic of Venice in winter

Daisy Shields falls under the spell of Venice in wintertime As dusk falls and the bells of San Marco echo across the lagoon, I find myself in a speedboat returning for one last night in Venice. Like countless lovers and poets before me I seem to find Venice hard to leave: after two days here I have missed my fligh... » MORE