Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

SHERLOCK HOLMES: Robert Downey Jr's larking detective channels Chaplin and Freud and the spirit of Vinnie Jones 

Robert Downey Jr's larking detective channels Chaplin and Freud and the spirit of Vinnie Jones

So overt it’s covert. That’s how the famous detective explains away the crassness of his disguises. In this newest instalment of the latest cinematic incarnation of the Holmesian myth, the detective rummages through the dressing-up box for silly beards, false gnashers, stupid specs. This Holmes even wears a type of babygrow whose patterning comically blends into the decor. As with Sherlock Holmes, so with Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. This is another film by Guy Ritchie disguised as a detective story by Arthur Conan Doyle. You couldn’t ever mistake it for the real thing.

My Week With Marilyn

MY WEEK WITH MARILYN: Slim, prim but well-acted tale of the legendary star's misadventure in England

Slim, prim but well-acted tale of the legendary star's misadventure in England

My Week With Marilyn depicts the supposedly sweet dalliance between Marilyn Monroe - an actress in over her head played by an actress, Michelle Williams, reaching her peak - and eager-beaver gofer Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) during the fraught Pinewood production of Laurence Olivier’s The Prince and the Showgirl in 1956.

John Leguizamo: Ghetto Klown, Charing Cross Theatre

JOHN LEGUIZAMO: Bogota-born actor's autobiographical one-man show is based on a true story

Bogota-born actor's autobiography is based on a true story

At Murry Bergtraum high school in Queens, New York, John Leguizamo was voted the "Most Talkative" student by his classmates. Not much has changed. As this one-man show demonstrates, Leguizamo talks like a Gatling gun on speed, switching almost unconsciously between English and Spanish, and likes to rattle through a gallery of impersonations with scurrilous, hyped-up intensity.

The music man who kept them dogies rollin'

LSO celebrates the epic tunes of Dimitri Tiomkin, Hollywood's great cowboy composer

On Thursday the London Symphony Orchestra plays a night of epic movie music by the man who gave America’s cowboy heroes their most stirring tunes. Dimitri Tiomkin was one of Hollywood’s film-score giants, John Wayne’s choice as composer for The Alamo, Wayne’s magnum opus, and Tiomkin's was the music that urged Gary Cooper and Clint Eastwood to ride out in iconic glory in landmark adventures such as High Noon or Rawhide.