Genie review – soulless Richard Curtis New York festive caper
Melissa McCarthy’s 2,000 year-old genie grapples with modernity while granting wishes galore to home alone dad Paapa Essiedu in this blandest of festive comedies
November 2023
Genie review – seasonal Richard Curtis comedy can’t save Christmas for anyone
This bafflingly bland offering wastes the talents of Melissa McCarthy and Paapa Essiedu – it’s as if they removed the laughs in case they offend
March 2023
Marlowe review – worldweary Liam Neeson makes for low-energy private eye
Raymond Chandler’s gumshoe hero is resurrected in this period adaptation of a novel by John Banville – a film that looks good but lacks a spark
January 2023
Alan Cumming hands back his OBE citing the ‘toxicity of empire’
Celtic cool or Scots cosplay? Alan Cumming’s strong looks on US Traitors assessed
TV tonight
TV tonight: can The Traitors US really be as devilishly good as the UK series?
100% ruthless: why the nasty US Traitors ruins the reality show
Summer essentials
Your ultimate Melbourne events guide: the best things to do this weekend and what’s on through January
The Traitors to return to BBC tomorrow with US version
November 2022
My Father’s Dragon review – sweet-natured animated Netflix adventure
An unlikely voice cast, including Dianne Wiest, Leighton Meester and Alan Cumming, breathe life into an immersive adaptation of the 1948 book
August 2022
My Old School review – deft documentary on a notorious schoolboy imposter
Animation, interviews and a lip-syncing Alan Cumming tell the true tale of a grown man who passed himself off as a pupil at a Glasgow high school
My Old School review – audacious tale of thirtysomething man who posed as a teenage pupil
Jono McLeod directs this intriguing documentary about his former classmate Brian MacKinnon, who at age 30, went back to school as a ‘teenager’
Burn; Ballet Freedom review – Alan Cumming gives it a whirl as Robert Burns
Burn review – Alan Cumming is extraordinary as Scotland’s rockstar poet
Alan Cumming: ‘You’d be shocked by the messages Miriam Margolyes and I leave each other!’
July 2022
‘It’s a feeling I’ve been chasing ever since’: Edinburgh festival debuts
Edinburgh festival 2022: 50 shows to see
January 2022
Alan Cumming to play Robert Burns in solo dance-theatre show
Actor aims to tell the Scottish poet’s story ‘using my whole body’ in a production at the 75th Edinburgh international festival in August
December 2021
Stream team
Bernard and the Genie: 1991 Richard Curtis sleeper is a Christmas cracker
Lenny Henry, Rowan Atkinson and Alan Cumming star in a fantasy-comedy that’s a rollicking tale of good versus evil
November 2021
Flashback
Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson: ‘People say double acts are like marriage without the sex’
The actors recreate their Victor & Barry comedy duo – and recall their unique creative spark
