Film review: Blind is divisive but gripping March 27, 2015 Cert 18 | ★★★★☆ Films about the blind, like films about the deaf, are faced with a formal problem: how do you convey the subjective experience of blindness without showing the viewer a blank screen for two hours? Compellingly, the Sundance-winning Blind gets around the problem by focusing on the flights of imagination that can [...]
Film review: Get Hard is a technically well-tooled comedy March 27, 2015 Cert 15 | ★★★☆☆ In Get Hard, James King (Will Ferrell) is a rich, clueless trader whose life falls apart when he’s convicted of fraud and sentenced to 10 years in San Quentin State Prison. With 30 days to get his affairs in order James hires Darnell Lewis (Kevin Hart), the manager of his local [...]
Film review: Cinderella is kitsch, colourful and just about adequate March 26, 2015 Cert U | ★★★☆☆ The idea of remaking Disney classics is interesting, and when done with spirit and creativity the results can be worthwhile – just check out Glenn Close in 101. Director Kenneth Branagh’s pastiche of the 1950 animated classic Cinderella is not a slavish reproduction, but it’s sufficiently similar that it still seems [...]
Something for the weekend March 26, 2015 DRINK! SUNDAY LOVE Head to The Old Queen’s Head on Essex Road, Islington on Sunday night for one last chance to keep the weekend alive. Admission £1. UNWIND! KING’S CROSS FETE King’s Cross may usually be a transport hub but this Saturday it’s a family destination, with everything from live music to oversize chess. Free. [...]
Give fantastic Roy new deal says Rooney March 26, 2015 ENGLAND captain Wayne Rooney has urged the Football Association to tie down national team manager Roy Hodgson to a new contract beyond next summer’s European Championships. Hodgson’s current deal expires after the tournament and FA chairman Greg Dyke this week reiterated that he was in no hurry to commit to a coach who oversaw England’s [...]
Wigglesworth backs controversial criticism of Lancaster by RFU boss March 26, 2015 ENGLAND scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth has conceded the criticism from Rugby Football Union chief Executive Ian Ritchie regarding his side’s Six Nations performance was entirely justified. Ritchie described England’s championship showing, at which Stuart Lancaster’s side recorded a fourth successive runners-up finish, as unacceptable and insisted there was no excuse for such a paucity of championships [...]
No sentiment attached to new Terry contract, insists Mourinho March 26, 2015 CHELSEA boss Jose Mourinho insists the decision to hand skipper John Terry a new one-year deal was governed by his enduring on-field value and not sentiment. Terry’s existing contract was set to expire at the end of the season but he is now committed to the Blues until the end of next term, in line [...]
Sport Comment: Popcorn at the ready for return of cricket’s very own Butch Cassidy March 26, 2015 I KNOW, I know: it’s international week and Lithuania are in town but, seriously, I think even the staunchest Tottenham fan has had enough of Harry Kane. Instead, keeping the international theme going, I give you the case of a 34-year-old, perhaps past his prime, who is hoping for a last hurrah with England. Those [...]
Michael Clarke: NZ loss turning point March 26, 2015 AUSTRALIA captain Michael Clarke insists fellow co-hosts New Zealand will only have themselves to blame should they lose Sunday’s World Cup final in Melbourne after inadvertently unlocking his side’s winning mentality. Darren Lehmann’s outfit reached the final courtesy of a 95-run victory over defending champions India in Sydney yesterday. The Black Caps consigned Australia to [...]
I was not KOd, insists Fernando Alonso March 26, 2015 DOUBLE Formula One champion Fernando Alonso insists he was not knocked out by his pre-season crash, despite being ruled out of the season’s first race due to fears of a concussion-related fatality. Alonso, who has been cleared by doctors to return for Sunday’s Malaysian Grand Prix, maintains he was only rendered unconscious by medication administered [...]