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James McAvoy and Sir Michael Caine at the Variety Club Awards

Sir Michael Caine and James McAvoy (pictured with his wife, Anne-Marie Duff) were among the prize-winners at the Variety Club's 56th annual showbusiness awards, held last night in London. McAvoy took the Best Film Actor award...

DVD review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Published Date: 15 November 2008 WHAT HAPPENED? After the Star Wars prequels we knew to expect that from Lucas, but Spielberg? Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull found him exhibiting the competent, disinterested...

Southbank's Christmas tribute to mark centenary of Quentin Crisp's birth

Christmas Day 2008 marks the centenary of Quentin Crisp’s birth. The flamboyant English writer, actor and self-styled ‘stately homo of England’ died in 1999. The House of Homosexual Culture and Southbank Centre are to celebrate...

Project X By The Book

I admit it: I have a bias against literary novelists who write about music. It has to do with my appetite for immediacy. That’s what I like about pop, and pop writing, and it’s not a tendency always shared by literary fiction...

Defiantly undefinable violinist on a folksy streak

By Kyle MacMillan Denver Post Fine Arts Critic Violinist, vocalist and composer Jenny Scheinman crosses musical boundaries. (Michael Wilson ) It's impossible to pin down Jenny Scheinman. "Since I'm consistently hard to define,...

In Depth: 10 movies that can save Blu-ray

With DVD still dominating retailer's shelves, and digital downloads and upscaling players pinching some of the limelight, Blu-ray has had a pretty hard run of it of late. All is not lost for the format, however, it needs the...

Re: Trama

mi spiegate con qualche esempio o paragone questa serie?siccome mi piace molto la storia di base originale da cui è tratto questo serial, mi potete dire se è fedele o ci sono aggiunti i soliti elementi esagerati per attirare il...

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

The biggest compliment I can pay a sequel is to say, if you liked the first movie, this one does more of the same but better. Hellboy II: The Golden ArmyThree-Disc Special EditionBuy this DVD While the first movie was clearly...

Steve Howell - My Mind Gets To Ramblin'

Available from Steve Howell's web site. A review written for the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange by Tampa Blue [tampablue AT tampablue.com] Steve Howell's My Mind Gets To Ramblin' is about as near to perfection as I have heard...

A New York Treasure Whose Value Goes Up in … Frankfurt?

Around 10 p.m. on a brisk Sunday evening in early November, Penny Arcade, the Manhattan performance artist and former Warhol starlet, was onstage with a four-piece pickup band at Joe’s Pub in the East Village. The petite and...

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