Oscar golden boy’s stab at indie rom com is just too hip by half September 17, 2009 FilmAWAY WE GOCert: 15 BURT and Verona are a couple of slacker thirtysomethings living in the middle of nowhere. She’s an illustrator, he sells insurance over the phone, and mostly they knock about their beat up, backwoods house wondering what the heck they’re going to do when Verona has her baby. Deciding they can’t stay [...]
OUT THIS WEEKEND PREVIEWS September 17, 2009 FILMGAMER Brain-dead sci-fi action gubbins starring Scotland’s Gerard Butler. THE FIRM Another week, another film about footy hoolies. Nothing to do with John Grisham. 31 NORTH, 62 EAST British thriller about a prime minister who betrays the SAS for an arms deal. DVDSTATE OF PLAY Hollywood remake of the BBC journalism and politics drama, with [...]
WATCH THOSE LEGGINGS September 17, 2009 Sara Hollamby Style CounselI WAS walking round my town’s centre the other day, and saw at least two young (ish) women wearing leggings with a strap top, that went down to to the waist. In other words, they were walking around quite a large shopping centre virtually in a pair of tights, with nothing covering [...]
Poker: a hard way to make an easy living September 17, 2009 ONE OF THE old maxims about poker is that it’s a hard way to make an easy living. You can grind out in a game for hours and hours and come away a loser, you can play for days in a major tournament and still bust out just short of the money, and you can [...]
Redford and Hayley the Gold bet at Ayr September 17, 2009 I think we may need Derren Brown’s help to pick the winner of tomorrow’s William Hill Ayr Gold Cup as the six furlong cavalry charge looks harder to call than ever. The ground continues to dry out while the importance of the draw won’t be known until after the running of this afternoon’s Silver Cup [...]
the INSIDER September 17, 2009 WE HAD a good week with the column last week, backing Goldolphin’s Sand Vixen to win the Flying Childers and laying Luca Cumani’s Seta in the May Hill. Seta is definitely very promising and it was encouraging to hear Kieren Fallon’s positive noises for the future after the race, but it showed again that wide [...]
Chelsea can continue amazing home record September 17, 2009 CHELSEA vs TOTTENHAMSunday 4pm, Sky Sports 1 CHELSEA V BOLTON, Saturday 13th December 2003, won’t resonate with most football fans, but that was the last time Chelsea tasted defeat in the league at Stamford Bridge against non Big Four opposition. They are now unbeaten at home against such teams in an astonishing 91 Premier League [...]
FOCUS ON: BRAINTREE, ESSEX September 17, 2009 HORSESHOES, CRESSING, CM77 8PQPrice: £825,000Formerly an ale house and dating back to the 1400s, this Grade II-listed property is set in a village three miles from Braintree – one hour from Liverpool Street by train. The five-bedroom house has retained its period features but has been updated to make a modern home. Stables and a [...]
Great getaways for those who are bored of London September 17, 2009 DOCTOR Johnson was of the opinion that those who are tired of London are tired of life. But he didn’t have to deal with packed commuter trains, paying four quid for a pint of lager or being mown down by cycle couriers every time he crossed Fleet Street. For many modern inhabitants of the capital, [...]
THE LONDON REPORT September 17, 2009 BANKING and energy stocks fuelled a 0.8 per cent gain for the FTSE 100 by close yesterday, up for a fifth straight day, as sentiment on the outlook for the global economy improved further. Britain’s blue chip index closed up 39.82 points at 5,163.95, its highest close since late September last year, having added 1.6 [...]
