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'Pleasantville' has gripping, believable plot

Thursday, 14 May 2015, 13:47 Last update: about 12 years ago

The compelling "Pleasantville" continues Attica Locke's insightful look at African-American life in Houston, where politics, race and classism converge in myriad ways. Locke sets her third novel...

Blur leave Britpop behind with 'The Magic Whip'

Wednesday, 13 May 2015, 15:15 Last update: about 12 years ago

Blur were Britpop flag-bearers of the 1990s, waging a media-driven battle with Oasis for the musical soul of Cool Britannia. Since that distant era, the band's members have traded the laddish...

'Adaline' is both ludicrous and deeply moving

Wednesday, 13 May 2015, 14:23 Last update: about 12 years ago

Is it possible for a movie to be at once ludicrously silly and genuinely moving? That's the strange question you might find yourself asking while watching "The Age of Adaline," a romantic fantasy with...

'Spinster' is thought-provoking look at singlehood

Wednesday, 13 May 2015, 13:45 Last update: about 12 years ago

Even its opening lines are provocative: "Whom to marry, and when it will happen - these two questions define every woman's existence, regardless of where she was raised or what religion she does or...

Frozen sing-along at the Eden Cinemas

Monday, 11 May 2015, 15:40 Last update: about 12 years ago

The sing-along version of Disney's double Oscar winning animated feature film Frozen will be screened exclusively at the Eden Cinemas on Saturday, 16 May at 11am, for one time only. Showing in Cinema...

Butterflies Are Free

Monday, 11 May 2015, 15:37 Last update: about 12 years ago

FM Theatre to stage award-winning play by Leonard Gershe, at St James Cavalier on 22, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31 May and 4, 5, 6, 7 June.   Following on from recent successes, including...

A brush with the past

Monday, 11 May 2015, 15:34 Last update: about 12 years ago Marie Benoît

Marie Benoît   It  seems to me that as we get older we become nostalgic for the past but especially for people we have known and loved; people who have shaped us....

A tale of two cities

Monday, 11 May 2015, 15:32 Last update: about 12 years ago Noel Grima

Patricia Salomone My pizza & toffee apples in the 1950s Self-published 2014 69pp   Superficially, this book (or booklet) tells the story of a child born as part...

Nico Darmanin performs competition repertoire at the Manoel

Monday, 11 May 2015, 15:17 Last update: about 12 years ago

Maltese Tenor Nico Darmanin has made it to the finals of the prestigious BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. In preparation he will be performing the repertoire for the competition at Teatru...

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