Film
YOUNG ADULT
Cert: 15
*****
YOUNG Adult takes a premise from the Hollywood Rom Com Storyline Generator™ and subverts it deliciously.
Charlize Theron plays ageing prom queen Mavis Gary, who returns to her “hick...
Reviews
Friday 3rd February 2012, 1:10am
Friday 3rd February 2012, 1:08am
Theatre
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
Olivier Theatre at The National
****
OLIVER Goldsmith’s famous play is a good old-fashioned romp. Cases of mistaken identity abound, incriminating snippets of conversation are overheard,...
Friday 3rd February 2012, 1:06am
Art
MIGRATIONS
Tate Britain
***
MIGRATIONS is not a user-friendly exhibit – abstract and vague from the get-go (what is the plural of migration when applied to art, exactly?), I walked in feeling out of my depth. But once...
Friday 3rd February 2012, 1:05am
Film
CARNAGE
Cert: 15
****
When Roman Polanski directs a discussion between two tense couples about a playground dispute, you know it’s not going to turn out well. Bleak and biting, Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, John C....
Friday 27th January 2012, 12:05am
Art
DAVID HOCKNEY
Royal Academy
***
by Zoe Strimpel
David Hockney’s extensive new show at the Royal Academy had, predictably enough, attracted long snaking queues on Day one. Hour one, in fact. But is it...
Friday 27th January 2012, 12:05am
The festive season witnessed the birth of a plethora of new bars and clubs in the capital, notable amongst them was The Rose on 23 Orchard Street in Marylebone, brought to you by clubland mainstays Nick House and Piers Adam (Whisky Mist,...
Friday 27th January 2012, 12:05am
Art
PHILIPPE PASQUA
Opera Gallery, 134 New Bond Street
***
by Steve Dinneen
The first image you are faced with at the new Philippe Pasqua exhibition is a female nude. The wheelchair-bound figure’s arms are...
Friday 27th January 2012, 12:05am
Film
THE DESCENDANTS
Cert: 15 ****
by Steve Dinneen
Alexander Payne does a rare thing in mainstream cinema; he makes films that are just about people – their flaws and insecurities and hopes and failures. It’s a...
Friday 27th January 2012, 12:05am
Film
THE GREY
Cert: 15 ***
by Stevie Martin
Liam Neeson stars in this surprisingly fun and occasionally grisly survivalist story, complete with treacherous storms, sudden death and jumping off cliffs across mile-high...
Friday 20th January 2012, 12:03am
Theatre
MAN IN THE MIDDLE
Theatre 503, Battersea
**
Is Wikileaks a bastion of truth or a threat to national security? Is Julian Assange the new face of journalism or a trumped-up sex offender? Is he the hero or the...
Editor's Letter
Allister Heath
UK can’t count on others messing up
THERE are two ways a country can do well. The first is to introduce domestic policies that boost work,...
