OUT THIS WEEKEND PREVIEWS May 21, 2009 FILMTORMENTED Britain’s answer to the current vogue for teen slasher flicks. EVERLASTING MOMENTS Acclaimed Swedish period drama about a female photographer. THE GIRL CUT IN TWO The latest quirky film from French auteur director Claude Chabrol. DVDTHE READER Kate Winslet on Oscar-winning form as a former Nazi prison guard. SEVEN POUNDS Apallingly mawkish melodrama with [...]
Strong acting fails to bring revised Ibsen classic to life May 21, 2009 TheatreA DOLL’S HOUSEDonmar WarehouseIbsen’s story of a woman who walks away from her empty marriage was too much for upright Victorian audiences at its first London staging in 1889. With such compelling source-material, it’s a shame Zinnie Harris’s reworked version – which relocates things from 1880s Norway to London in 1909 – is curiously bloodless, [...]
NOW SHOWING SIX OF THE BEST May 21, 2009 THEATRE: BURST Festival Battersea Arts Centre’s annual festival of new theatre, with 51 different events set to take place. The subtitle is 51 Reasons for Living, inspired by President Obama’s inauguration address. FILM: Synecdoche, New York Charlie Kaufman’s magnum opus is a lingering, poetic and funny meditation on life, love and the whole damn thing. [...]
Week of gains set back by S&P UK outlook downgrade May 21, 2009 A CUT in the UK’s ratings outlook from agency Standard & Poor’s weighed on the FTSE 100 yesterday, with weakness in heavyweight oils, miners and banks contributing to a 2.8 per cent slide by close of play. The index ended 122.94 points lower at 4,345.47, its biggest daily fall since 27 March, having closed 13.84 [...]
Investors fear US echoing UK woes May 21, 2009 US stocks slid in a broad sell-off yesterday as investors, concerned about the US fiscal condition, exited dollar denominated assets across the board. Markets came under severe selling pressure as a result of an outlook downgrade for the UK’s triple-A credit rating heightened fears that the United States, with its increasing budget deficit and weakened economy, could [...]
Mastercraftsman looks set to give his master trainer another classic May 21, 2009 DELEGATOR is as short as 7/4 to land tomorrow’s Boylesports Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh after his gallant display on rock hard ground at Newmarket. Brian Meehan’s colt proved all his doubters wrong that day by travelling smoothly throughout and only finding Sea The Stars too good. The son of Dansili proved that his Craven [...]
the INSIDER May 21, 2009 I’M SUFFERING with a cold which may pack me off to bed for the Bank Holiday weekend. I just hope I’m fighting fit to watch the football next week and also make my annual pilgrimage to Beverley for the Hilary Needler Trophy, always a good pointer for a Royal Ascot filly. Thinking of fillies, I’m rather [...]
Tigers are no match for United’s champion cubs May 21, 2009 HULL CITY VS MANCHESTER UNITEDSUNDAY 4.00PM, SKY SPORTS 3 JFK, Roswell, Princess Diana. Could Hull City v Man United become the next conspiracy theory on Sunday? Sir Alex Ferguson seems certain to field a ‘weakened’ side and any of Middlesbrough, Newcastle or Sunderland could be relegated if the champions are beaten by Hull. The only [...]
REALITY CHECK AS UK DEFICIT SOARS May 21, 2009 TENTATIVE signs of a recovery in the UK economy were dramatically overshadowed yesterday when credit ratings agency S&P downgraded its outlook on UK debt and the scale of the crisis in the public finances was laid bare. S&P lowered its outlook on the UK’s prized AAA credit rating to “negative” from “stable”, giving a one [...]
A million jobs to go May 21, 2009 ONE million more people will lose their jobs before unemployment peaks in the UK, Bank of England monetary policy committee member David Blanchflower said yesterday. The economist forecast 100,000 jobs to go each month before the end of the year, warning of a “lost generation” unless the government moves to prevent job losses. Blanchflower is [...]
