MusicalsReviewRoyal Festival Hall, London Full of lazy, hazy nostalgia for classic romantic encounters in Italy, this picturesque show is rescued from cliche by Renée Fleming’s soaring star quality
‘This is what Italy does to you,” growls Renée Fleming as the plot of The Light in the Piazza reaches its most tangled point. And if her character – Margaret Johnson, a 1950s American tourist in Florence losing her daughter Clara to a whirlwind romance – is going to blame her confusion on anything it might as well be that. Read More...
NOOKS AND CRANNIESWhat time is it at the North Pole? Harold Somers, Manchester Both poles run on GMT, as does space, and before you ask no there isn't such a thing as space daylight savings time! Iain Lambert, Slough UK
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Crime filmsReviewJack Huston and Emilia Clarke star in this brash true-crime melodrama about the killing of an informant by a bureau agent
In 1989, the high-flying FBI officer Mark Putnam became a gruesome footnote in bureau history by killing the informant with whom he was having an affair: a young woman called Susan Smith. That made her the first murder victim of an FBI agent.
It is a bizarre case of corruption and misogyny, and it deserves a substantial movie. Read More...