A corporate hit-man with a heart January 14, 2010 Film UP IN THE AIR Cert: 15 IN an age when films are sometimes made two years before they are released, Up in the Air’s most obvious selling point is its timeliness. Jason Reitman, director of Oscar-winning Juno, has made a film about people who fire people, and one of its most touching aspects is [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEKEND January 14, 2010 FILM THE BOOK OF ELI Denzel Washington goes into action in post-apocalyptic America. ALL ABOUT STEVE Sandra Bullock plays a zany crossword expert who falls for her blind date. Dreadful. CRUDE Documentary about the oil industry’s contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon. DVD THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 Weak remake with Denzel Washington and John Travolta. [...]
COSY AND TOUGH IS THE KEY FOR WINTER BOOTS January 14, 2010 Sara Hollamby Style Counsel IT’S not until you get extreme weather like this that you suddenly realise how totally useless your best fashion boots are for outside wear. With this amount of snow and ice, which looks set for a couple of weeks at least, you really need proper snow boots. Not ever having owned [...]
Learn to make the most of your neckwear January 14, 2010 WHEN you get up in the morning and blearily pull a tie around your neck, you might be forgiven if all you care about is tying it in such way that it stays on and doesn’t make you look like a footballer. If that describes your neckwear routine, then you are missing a trick. There [...]
How a wedding-phobic divorcee came to fall in love with marriage January 13, 2010 COMMITTED BY ELIZABETH GILBERT Bloomsbury, £12.99 ELIZABETH GILBERT shot to fame with her memoir Eat, Pray, Love – it was such a hit that a film version starring Julia Roberts is set for release later this year. At the end of that tale of recovery following a grisly, heart-rending divorce and a long period of [...]
OUT OF OFFICE January 13, 2010 ICE SCULPTURE COMES TO CANARY WHARF If it’s a winter challenge that combines skill, beauty and speed, it must be ice-sculpting. Five teams from Europe descend on the Wharf this week to compete against the clock to carve 2m square blocks of ice into shapes suggestive of commerce and adventure, such as ships riding big [...]
It’s time to hunker down in a cosy pub January 13, 2010 THE JERUSALEM TAVERN, CLERKENWELL Yes it’s a classic and an obvious choice, but there’s still no finer place to hunker down and enjoy a few pints of beer. And what beer it is. This Farringdon pub serves the full range of the very fine St Peter’s beers, including their Organic bitter, blackberry, nettle and gooseberry [...]
Four by phwoar January 12, 2010 I’VE just returned from a stint on the East Coast of the USA where I thought we had done quite well with snow. The thing is, it’s no surprise when it arrives over there. “Snow days” tend to close schools, but people are out shovelling immediately, protecting themselves from any litigious opportunists. Snowploughs are put [...]
OUT OF OFFICE January 12, 2010 BARBERSHOPERA II A popular highlight at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Rob Castell’s sequel to his award-winning Barbershopera! is returning for a brief West End run. It’s a distinctly silly musical telling the story of a Catalan matador who inherits his father’s Norfolk barbershop. Find out how he fares impressing the locals with his continental [...]
Get fit to hit the slopes January 11, 2010 SNO CAMP AT VIRGIN ACTIVE The snow motif doesn’t stop with the name of this course: each week’s session will be based on a new theme such as Snow Plough (the beginner’s technique – draining on the inner thigh) and Mont Blanc (referrs to more advanced techniques working glutes and calves). You’ll also be taught [...]