If the name Billy Paul doesn’t immediately spring to mind, writes our film reviewer Joyce Glasser,  the title of his biggest hit from the 1970s, ‘Me and Mrs Jones’ probably will.  This interesting documentary by Swedish director Goran Hugo Olsson tells us what happened to the one-hit wonder.

The great depression era bank robber, John Dillinger, became an icon for the unemployed, down trodden public who blamed the rich bankers and government for their plight. You can see where the producers are heading in our own credit crunch by casting the charismatic, popular actor Johnny Depp as the charismatic, folk hero, Dillinger. 

Kate Morley reviews the 50th Anniversary production of one of the most

successful 

musicals of all time.

Robert Tanitch takes a look at Sutra at Sadler's Wells.

From Germany, comes an all time first: a serious drama about senior citizens that is full of nudity and sex.  ‘Cloud 9’ (pictured left) is, of course, that feeling of butterfly jitters and euphoria usually associated with young, single people when they meet that special someone at a school dance. It certainly wasn’t in the cards for the buxom 66-year old grandmother Inge (Ursula Werner), whose 30-year marriage to Werner (Horst Rehberg) is as dependable as the tides.

 If you are a grandparent looking for a nice play to take the grandchildren to, and you have already seen War Horse, then look no further than this pleasantly acted and non-frightening adaptation of Nina Bawden’s classic story of evacuees in the Welsh valleys during World War 2.

Tenderness is an engrossing American road movie that almost succeeds in its quest to combine a love story with a psychological thriller...Joyce Glasser takes a look.