the rum diary

There’s nothing rum about Bruce Robinson’s Bacardi- fuelled adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel, THE RUM DIARY (MA) with Johnny Depp as the dipso gonzo gringo journo.

Based on the debut novel by Hunter S. Thompson, THE RUM DIARY tells

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the hunger games

The first great popcorn movie of the year has arrived in THE HUNGER GAMES (M).

Written and Directed by Gary Ross whose earlier film Pleasantville is a kind of template to this robust action adventure yarn, THE HUNGER GAMES, is

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bouncers

British playwright John Godber’s BOUNCERS is a very funny play. The audience was laughing continuously through the performance. Director Maggie Scott has done a wonderful job in getting the versatile actors to deliver a constant barrage of humorous insights and

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paris manhattan

Like the classic Eagles song ‘Peaceful Easy Feeling’ it was a light, breezy experience engaging with Alice Stolz and her story in French filmmaker Sophie Lellouche’s debut film, PARIS MANHATTAN.

Alice Taglioni plays the quirky, adorable Alice, a character reminiscent

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the vow

American filmmaker Michael Sucsy’s romantic drama THE VOW, from a screenplay by Abby Kohn and Matt Silverstein, features a journey that audiences can fully get involved with.

Channing Tatum plays Leo a regular, happily married man whose life suddenly takes

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the new electric ballroom-

“Stories are fishy things” says the only male character in Enda Walsh’s THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM, now playing at the Stables Theatre.

He should know something about the piscatorial as he plies his trade trawling the bleak Irish coast where

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the weir

Who wouldn’t want to spend an evening in a country pub in Ireland listening to some good craic? If the discussion is about an attractive young woman who has moved into the village and is being shown around the countryside

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beautiful burnout

Scott Garden and Steven Hoggett’s production of Bryony Lavery’s script successfully transports us to the world of young working class Scottish kids who take on boxing to try and make something of their lives.

We see it all- mothers anxiously

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address unknown

A close friendship is meant to be a tower of strength in the difficult lives that we all lead, however sometimes it can prove to be defective to its foundations. This is the case in Kathrine Kressman Taylor’s 1938 novella

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address unknown

Set in the first few years of Fuehrer Adolph’s ascension in the Fatherland, ADDRESS UNKNOWN chronicles the friendship between two business partners in a successful San Francisco art gallery. Martin Schulse, a German-born Aryan, has returned to Germany with his

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