Friday, 10 October 2025

Downton and out, farewell to abbey

AFTER five seasons of television and two films, the hugely successful Downton Abbey franchise appears to be bowing out with a third ...

 

High stakes in ransom games

NINETEEN years after they collaborated on Inside Man, director Spike Lee and actor Denzel Washington return to work together for a ...

 

A reimagining of an eighties classic film based on a novel by Warren Adler is being shown at the Picturehouse in Henley this week. The ...

 

Arts and homewares at herb farm

AN art exhibition which has become an annual tradition at the Herb Farm in Sonning Common is back next month. Organised by Maria ...

 

Roll out the tartan for Scots rockers on tour

FIFTY years after the Bay City Rollers achieved superstardom with songs such as Bye, Bye, Baby, guitarist Stuart “Woody” Wood says he ...

 

Operas on bachelors or wedlock

DIVA Opera is showing two productions at the Great Barn, Manor Farm, Fingest, next month. The operas start at 6pm, with an extended ...

 

Whodunit and story told in reverse

NOVELS by quiz show host Richard Osman and horror author Stephen King have been adapted for the big screen and come to the Regal ...

 

Sacred space ideal for starry night

WEST End singer and producer Mike Sterling is used to the big production values of the theatre world. However, for his next ...

 

Sounds of Oasis and Queen

THE Flowing Spring in Playhatch has two more Gigs in the Garden over the next few weeks. Next Saturday (August 30), tickets are ...

 

Moo-ving moments, bugs and beasties

THE River & Rowing Museum’s family activities continue, alongside its work and play holiday club on Wednesday. On Monday, August 18, ...

 

Dating game no match for Dakota

MATCHMAKER Lucy (Dakota Johnson) is torn between past and present in Celine Song’s latest film, Materialists (15), out today at the ...

 

Textile art on display

EIGHT members of Consuo Textile Art are exhibiting in Henley. Taking their name from the Latin for “to sew together”, they are linked ...

 

Rock opera on Jesus in immersive setting

AN immersive production of Sir Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, directed by Paul Hart, is ...

 

Subject of cats will trump American president at forthcoming comedy night

THE next Honk! live comedy night will include a comedian who is a writer for American late-night satire programme The Daily Show. Matt ...

 

Fellow performers in my record collection

MARTIN Fry of Eighties band ABC has had a connection with Rewind South from day one. The singer of the synth-pop group says: “Rewind ...

 

I threw Midge Ure’s guitar... but caught it

SHOWBIZ and musicianship are in the blood for singer-songwriter Chesney Hawkes. The 53-year-old, who plays Rewind South on Sunday, is ...

 

Fallout boys, love tales and true blues

THE loneliness of middle-aged males is something of a hot topic of late, and the subject is addressed in a new black comedy, out today ...

 

HE is nicknamed the Man of Steel, but in director James Gunn’s film, Superman (12A), out now at the Regal Picturehouse in Henley, the ...

 

Singers never flinched at challenge of capturing intensity of pieces

Pangbourne Choral Society summer concert Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel, Pangbourne College Saturday, June 21 THIS concert marked ...

 

Jurassic Johansson sequel is dino-mite

DIRECTOR Gareth Edwards’s standalone prequel to the Star Wars series, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, was a huge hit and now he has ...