“WHEN I was a kid, I just thought it was brilliant,” enthuses Mark Kermode of his passion for Slade in Flame’s pleasingly gritty depiction of a fictitious rock band - the titular Flame, portrayed by ...

It’s July 29 1974, the first day of production on the film that will surely take Britain’s biggest singles band to the next level. “When we [signed with] Chas, it took two years before we had a hit,” ...

Noddy Holder on cult film Slade in Flame, Lauren Elkin and Grace Joy Howarth discuss Simone de Beauvoir, and Stephen Rea on performing Samuel Beckett. Show more In 1975, at the height of their fame, ...

Outspoken, opinionated and never lost for words, Mark is the UK's leading film critic. This twice-weekly video blog is the place where he airs his personal views on the things that most fire him up ...

King James VI & I, Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, The Extraordinary Miss Flower Review: John Lennon docs, Tina Fey's The Four Seasons and The Great Gatsby musical A snapshot of ...