McEnroe film review: Reveals fragility beneath tennis star’s bravado July 16, 2022 Wimbledon may have finished, but here’s an opportunity to get into the mind of one of its most famous champions. This documentary by Barney Douglas (2019 cricket documentary The Edge) features the American legend as well as family, friends, and rivals talking about his unique rise to stardom, his famous temperament, and what drove his [...]
Explorer film review: Honest, revealing portrait of Sir Ranulph Fiennes July 16, 2022 Sir Ranulph Fiennes has devoted his life to travelling the world’s most inhospitable climates. Among his credits are being the first person to visit the North and South Pole by surface, the first to cross Antarctica by foot, and he climbed Everest at the age of 65. Using archives, interviews, and footage following the great [...]
The Railway Children Return review: A weary reboot July 16, 2022 Like ET, The Wizard of Oz and The Great Escape, The Railway Children -the 1970 original which spawned reboot The Railway Children Return – is a movie most of us have absorbed at some point, probably during Christmas or a bank holiday. The 1970 movie is one of the beloved British movies of all time, [...]
Expert Opinion: Lyle’s James Lowe on where to go in London July 15, 2022 James Lowe opened Lyle’s in Shoreditch with John Ogier, with a mission to showcase British ingredients. Lyle’s won a Michelin star 18 months after opening and was ranked among The World’s 50 Best Restaurants in 2018. St JohnThis was one of the first restaurant experiences that made me want to learn to cook and open [...]
Anything Goes at Barbican review: All aboard! This is a five-star musical thrillride July 14, 2022 Anything Goes achieves a rare kind of alchemy by succeeding at everything it turns its hand to. It’s a sterling effort in song, dance, staging, acting and storytelling, and it keeps the pace throughout. Tonally, it tightropes between farce and sentimentality deftly. The romance doesn’t veer toward schmaltzy, the comedy never towards cringe. This will [...]
We tried The new Flora terrace outside the Sofitel Hotel in St James July 14, 2022 Summer is the perfect time to embrace European style café culture. Sitting at little tables on sunny pavements, sipping a glass of wine and watching the world go by is such a civilised way to while away a couple of hours. The new Flora terrace is directly outside the Sofitel Hotel in St James, allowing [...]
Summer recipe: Pied à Terre’s fabulous Apricot Greek Milk Pie July 13, 2022 This is my refined take on a classic Greek Milk Pie. I created it when I was in Greece at my family home on Kefalonia, where we have apricot trees in the garden. Enjoy! Ingredients• 16 7x7cm filo pastry sheets; six 6×6; six 5×5; and six 4×4• 3 tbsp melted butter• 3 fresh and ripe [...]
Fruity futures: A guide to buying wine en primeur July 13, 2022 Buying ‘En Primeur’ means purchasing a wine before it is even bottled, let alone released – it is, in essence, a futures market. Originating in Bordeaux but now a concept found across the globe, one purchases the wine upfront, with the duty and VAT payable on arrival. The mutually beneficial element to this is that [...]
‘Greed is good’: Radwood retro car show to celebrate the 1980s July 12, 2022 Taking place at Bicester Heritage on 20 August 2022, the Radwood show encourages drivers to dress in retro clothes to match their cars.
Katikies Mykonos is a haven from the craziness of Cyclades’ party island July 12, 2022 People have been partying in Mykonos since the 60s, and probably even before that. Today, the bold and the beautiful, from Grace Kelly and Jackie Onassis, to Beyonce and, er, Kim Kardashian, have all washed up on the island’s picture-perfect shores. There they loll around on vast white daybeds, bag a bargain at one of [...]