An emotionally bruising but satisfying yarn November 1, 2012 FILM RUST & BONE Cert 15 | **** Rust & Bone is a funny old yarn. Try explaining the concept and it sounds utterly ridiculous. Here goes: a sexy whale trainer starts an ambiguous relationship with a vagrant bare-knuckle fighter after she loses her legs in a freak orca-related accident. But where the premise is [...]
For a pretty good time, watch… November 1, 2012 FILM FOR A GOOD TIME, CALL… Cert 18 | *** After two films and six seasons of Sex and the City, the combination of raunchy dialogue, sex toys and gay best friends is no longer a shocking or original way to depict the lives of professional women in their thirties. For a Good Time, Call… [...]
House prices rise in October November 1, 2012 UK house prices rose 0.6 per cent in October, lender Nationwide said this morning, although values are still 0.9 per cent lower year on year. The lender puts the price of a typical home at £164,153, a slight uptick from last month. Robert Gardner, chief economist at Nationwide, said this morning that the annual pace [...]
How the tech giants measure up October 31, 2012 What on earth have they been up to recently? Anything to write home about? It’s been a whirlwind few months for Microsoft, with Steve Ballmer (rightly) saying his company’s bet on Windows 8, and its emphasis on touch-screen technology, represents an “all in” moment. It has brought out new desktop, tablet and mobile phone operating [...]
Zacharanda and me: the true story of an accidental YouTube sensation October 31, 2012 IT WAS on the eve of Obama’s 2008 election victory that a friend of mine, quite inadvertently, became a YouTube “sensation”. Adam Smith, who at the time worked as a reporter for the Birmingham Mail, had flown himself to Miami to campaign for Barack Obama (because Miami was: “where the party’s at. I was hardly [...]
A superlative-defying Range Rover October 30, 2012 I’ve only been driving Land Rover’s new Range Rover for five minutes and already I have had to swerve to avoid a man running down the motorway. Not across the motorway you understand but down it, as if he is pretending to be a car. Driving the new Range Rover in Morocco is challenging. Pedestrians [...]
Make sure you have a blast this Bonfire night October 30, 2012 FRIDAY Brockwell Park A fireworks showcase organised by Lambeth Council. Doors open 4pm and the display will begin at 8pm. Free to attend. Streatham Common A second show by Lambeth Council, running parallel to the Brockwell Park display (see above). Bishops Park Hammersmith and Fulham Council’s event opens at 6pm, with fireworks on at 7.15pm. [...]
All fireworked out? October 30, 2012 Seize the Day at the Wellcome Trust Friday 2 November The Wellcome trust is hosting a macabre night looking at our experiences and relationships with death. Activities will include coffin decorating and a near-death experience. There will also be talks on throughout the four hour event. Doors 7pm. The event is free but some talks [...]
Hirsutes you, sir October 29, 2012 The boom in male grooming continues apace – and according to Braun’s new ambassador Andrew Davis, it isn’t all about tapping into one’s inner metrosexual, despite what some brands would have you believe. You’ll be forgiven for not recognising Davis’ name, but if you’re a fan of the respective looks of Tom Cruise, Tinie Tempah, [...]
Cheap doesn’t always mean bad but be prepared for a challenge October 29, 2012 bottleopener@cityam.com THE £5 bottle of wine has long been a staple in everyone’s shopping baskets but that’s changing. Today’s 20 per cent VAT and the general impact of inflation is quickly making it nothing more than a distant memory. With that in mind, accompanied by six City A.M. readers, I set on a quest to [...]