‘Captain Phillips’ movie review

Director Paul Greengrass (Green Zone, The Bourne Supremacy) has a habit of making movies that blend his documentary-maker’s sensibilities with his interest in the political situations of the day, leading to films that are both intelligent and unique twists on the action/thriller norms.

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‘What Remains’ finale review

Tony Basgallop is a talented man. And a cruel writer. Indeed, we might never forgive him for luring us into his dramatic attic three Sundays ago. Because as we’ve been stumbling through the shadows trying to guess the murderer, he’s been busy sharpening his final script into an arrowhead; all so he can fire it right into our heart.

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‘Pope Joan’ play review

“Feminism always gets associated with being a radical movement – good. It should be.” So said Canadian actress Ellen Page in a recent Guardian interview, and now another spiky actress, Sherlock’s Louise Brealey, throws her fist in the air with her first play, Pope Joan.

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Win ‘Doctor Who’ novels!

From award-winning science fiction writer Alastair Reynolds, Harvest of Time is published by BBC Books on 6 June (£16.99 hardback), featuring the Third Doctor. JT Colgan’s Dark Horizons (£12.99 hardback) is also out now.

The perfect gifts for Father’s Day, we’ve got sets of both books to give away to three of our Twitter followers!

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