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September 2024
Sunday with Lindsay Duncan: ‘I lie on the sofa and read the paper’
The actor spends her Sundays in the pursuit of pleasure, including a trip to the farmers’ market and some very good quality cake
February 2024
The week in theatre: Dear Octopus; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Just for One Day – review
Dear Octopus review – Lindsay Duncan leads a warm drama about a bickering family
January 2024
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Truelove; Mr Bates vs the Post Office; The Traitors; The Tourist – review
Old friends make a pact in a pithy euthanasia thriller; finally, the Post Office scandal gets the attention it deserves; more backstabbers gather at the castle; and from the outback to Ireland with Jamie Dornan
TV review
Truelove review – an exquisite drama about bumping off your best mates
Could you kill your oldest pals as an act of love? That’s the question asked in this twisty, magnificent and deeply moving show starring Lindsay Duncan and Clarke Peters
‘I was asked to show my legs at my first TV audition’: Lindsay Duncan on surviving peak chauvinism
As she plays an unsatisfied woman seeking dangerous thrills in the TV drama Truelove, the star remembers the shocking sexism she had to endure on her way to becoming one of our classiest actors
October 2023
Doctor Jekyll review – Eddie Izzard in gender-flipped reboot of Hammer horror
Casting Izzard as billionaire scientist Nina, a new incarnation for the classic story’s tormented hero, proves less intriguing than it sounds
June 2022
Sherwood: episode by episode
Sherwood recap: episode four – have we found our Keats?
Arrows continue to fly as the fugitives hide out in the forest and spycop suspicion comes exceedingly close to home. And what a final sequence. Wow
May 2022
Dance of Death review – lethally dull Strindberg staging
A strong creative team featuring Lindsay Duncan and Hilton McRae cannot bring this dreary revival to life
September 2019
The week in theatre: Hansard; The Son; Bartholomew Fair – review
Hansard review – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for the Cotswold set
June 2017
Gifted review – touching family melodrama
Gifted review – real issues turned into gooey fantasy
March 2016
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Churchill’s Secret; Land of Hope and Glory: British Country Life; Murder: The Third Voice; House of Cards – review
Churchill’s children were sidelined in a slight but well-acted drama. But House of Cards returned and worked like a dream
November 2015
Les Liaisons Dangereuses review – Alan Rickman is a cat who knows the way to the cream
From the archive: Christopher Hampton’s theatrical re-creation of the epistolary novel opens at the Ambassadors in London
January 2015
Kevin Elyot’s My Night With Reg: ‘the perfect West End play’
Birdman review – Michael Keaton goes a long way to restoring his reputation
February 2014
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Guy Lodge's DVDs and downloads
Superb performances from Tom Hanks in Captain Phillps and the late James Gandolfini in Enough Said are among this week's DVD highlights, writes Guy Lodge
December 2013
Metro Manila named British independent film of the year
Low-budget thriller set in the Philippines is standout winner at 2013 Bifas, with director Sean Ellis also named best director
October 2013
Le Week-end – review
Lindsay Duncan and Jim Broadbent shine in Roger Michell and Hanif Kureishi's melancholy romantic comedy, writes Mark Kermode
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