Theatre review: We Want You To Watch June 18, 2015 NT Temporary Theatre | ★★☆☆☆ We need to talk about pornography. Since the internet allowed it to profligate, it has become as instantly accessible as television. Acts of reprehensible violence, criminal outside the medium, are available for easy consumption. In We Want You To Watch, dance-performance duo RashDash and playwright Alice Birch have collaborated to [...]
Film review: Entourage is a harmless cinematic victory lap June 18, 2015 Cert 12a | ★★★☆☆ What better way to end a series about Hollywood than with a movie adaptation? Movie star Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) and his trio of friends are trying to keep Chase’s directorial debut from spiralling out of control while managing their own frantic personal lives. From the start, Entourage falls into the [...]
Film review: Accidental Love June 18, 2015 Cert 15 | ★☆☆☆☆ Accidental Love was supposed to be David O Russell’s follow-up to 2004’s I Heart Huckabees, but he bailed on the project in 2010, perhaps after finally getting around to reading his own script. The story is daft: when Alice (an insignificant Jessica Biel) gets shot in the head by an errant [...]
Film review: Mr Holmes is an elementary character study of elderly Sherlock June 18, 2015 Cert PG | ★★★★☆ A century and a quarter after his literary debut, Sherlock Holmes has never been more popular. Given the renewed interest caused by two hit TV series and a Guy Ritchie movie franchise, it was only a matter of time before we got a film adaptation of A Slight Trick of [...]
Murray ready for last-eight trial by serve June 18, 2015 BRITAIN’S Andy Murray expects a barrage of big serves when he faces Gilles Muller in today’s Aegon Championships quarter-final after sealing his last-eight spot by cruising past Spain’s Fernando Verdasco at Queen’s Club yesterday. Top seed Murray dispatched Verdasco in straight sets, 7-5, 6-4, to record his first victory on grass over the world No42 [...]
Johnson makes perfect start to US Open assault June 18, 2015 AMERICAN Dustin Johnson produced an eye-catching opening round as his quest to land a first Major title started in impressive fashion on day one of the US Open at Chambers Bay yesterday. World No7 Johnson, who earlier this year returned from a six-month leave of absence from golf, carded a five-under-par round of 65, which [...]
U21 European Championship: Southgate urges young lions to bounce back from early setback June 18, 2015 ENGLAND 0 PORTUGAL 1 ENGLAND boss Gareth Southgate urged his side not to dwell on the disappointment of slipping to defeat against Portugal in their opening group clash of the European Under-21 Championship last night. The decisive goal came 12 minutes into the second period when Sporting Lisbon midfielder Joao Mario forced the ball home [...]
Charlton kid Reds-bound June 18, 2015 LIVERPOOL are poised to land teenage Charlton defender Joe Gomez for £3.5m and are expected to follow up that signing by reviving interest in Southampton and England right-back Nathaniel Clyne. Centre-back Gomez, 18, is believed to have caught the eye of several Premier League sides but the Reds appear to have won the race for [...]
Moore rides into Royal Ascot history June 18, 2015 JOCKEY Ryan Moore was hailed as one of racing’s greats after he took his tally at Royal Ascot this week to a record-equalling eight winners with a 786-1 treble on Ladies’ Day. Moore almost went one better but he and Kingfisher were edged out by Graham Lee and Trip To Paris in the meeting’s highlight, [...]
Athletes defend Farah over tests June 18, 2015 BRITISH athletes have rallied to the defence of Mo Farah after it emerged that the double Olympic champion missed two drug tests. Farah, whose coach Alberto Salazar and training partner Galen Rupp have denied claims they broke doping rules, was reported to have missed tests in the two years preceding his success at the London [...]