Top Gun: Maverick, a perfect blockbuster, is Tom Cruise at his finest May 23, 2022 Tom Cruise comes full circle, returning to the role that made him a megastar. While he had found success with Legend and Risky Business, it was 1986’s Top Gun that set the template for the biggest star in Hollywood. A couple of months shy of his 60th birthday, he feels the need for speed again [...]
Jubilee Weekend: Cruise the Thames to toast her Maj May 23, 2022 One is not quite on the royal yacht – but I’ve certainly found my sort of gin palace as I board our hire boat to cruise the River Thames. To mark the start of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, I’ve joined a party on an eight-berth vessel to steer from Chertsey to Windsor, Her Majesty’s [...]
No crackdown needed to halt spate of pitch invasions, says football crowd expert May 23, 2022 Football authorities should resist pressure to implement tougher crowd control measures following a spate of pitch invasions, says a leading authority on fan disorder. Crystal Palace manager Patrick Vieira called for current safeguards to be reviewed on Sunday after Aston Villa goalkeeper Robin Olsen alleged he was attacked by Manchester City fans who flooded onto [...]
Two Palestinians Go Dogging, review: Touching portrait of the tragedy of conflict May 23, 2022 Let’s be clear on this from the get-go: finding comedy in the Israel-Palestine crisis is an incredibly brave thing to do. Not only that, it requires incredibly astute writing. Sami Ibrahim has achieved both of these things with two Palestinians go dogging, a personal and political new play littered with thrillingly perverse laughs. If Ibrahim’s [...]
Pets and lets: Know your rights when renting with Fido May 23, 2022 Working from home and the quest for outside space have both been widely reported since the start of the pandemic but it is perhaps the increase in pet ownership that has had the most impact on the rental market. Renting with a pet often gets a bad press but with accountability and care from both [...]
Anne-Marie Duff in fine form in The House of Shades at the Almeida May 23, 2022 Sometimes an ambitious failure is preferable to a safe success, but that’s sadly not the case with The House of Shades. Even the incredible Anne-Marie Duff – on fierce form – is unable to pull together the threads of a play that’s part state-of-the-nation polemic, part kitchen sink drama, part Greek tragedy and part surreal [...]
No disguising that it’s a kind of magic May 23, 2022 | Sponsored In her May 2020 hit ‘Daisies’, pop susperstar Katy Perry asked: “When did we all stop believing in magic?” For anyone who saw her memorable performance at the American Idol 2020 finale they would have been in no doubt that magic is actually real as they experienced the first major application of visual storytelling company [...]
VEXO’s X-POT – simple, sophisticated and reliable May 23, 2022 | Sponsored Not all great innovation need be complicated. That can necessarily be the case, of course, but sometimes the simplest ideas can be the most brilliant. As Leonardo da Vinci so succinctly put it: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”. And no less an engineer/scientist than Edsger Dijkstra believed that “simplicity is the prerequisite for reliability.” And [...]
From local scrap metal merchant to international trade excellence May 23, 2022 | Sponsored Donald Ward Limited trading as Ward began in the 1940s from humble beginnings as a small scrap metal collector. Based in Ilkeston in Derbyshire, the company was incorporated in December 1976 and fast forward to 2022, it’s now a fourth-generation company that processes around a million tonnes of materials annually; recycling products such as metals, plastics, glass, [...]
Three ways to radically rethink your workout ahead of summer May 23, 2022 If you feel stuck in a rut when it comes to your gym sessions, we have some tips and tricks totake you to the next level TIP 1: STRENGTHEN YOUR CORE Bar legs (a day famously skipped by many), the “core” is the area of the body people are most likely to shy away from [...]