Kenny Rogers takes chances on new album
Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 16:47
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Kenny Rogers, "You Can't Make Old Friends" (Warner Bros.) Kenny Rogers enters his 75th year with an album that blends the familiar with the challenging, seeking new hits and...
A 'Romeo and Juliet' lacking passion
Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 15:16
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
It is surely a bad sign for any "Romeo and Juliet" when its most pulse-quickening moments come from Paul Giamatti. This latest adaption of the Shakespeare tragedy of young love...
A stellar Hanks in harrowing 'Phillips'
Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 15:08
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
If you saw Paul Greengrass's "United 93," a terrifying depiction of one of the doomed flights on 9/11, you know this director can evoke a harrowing, real-life event like few others. In...
Court rejects claims against 'Three Cups' author
Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 14:32
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
An appeals court has rejected claims that author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson committed fraud by lying in his best-selling book "Three Cups of Tea" to boost sales and donations to...
Pup Idol: How to Tackle Behavioural Issues
Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 10:26
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
How to Tackle Behavioural Issues My puppy, Honey, is adorable, but she wasn’t always like that... Not long ago, Honey was becoming a bit of a handful and developing A...
Joe Nichols changes direction, not quality
Monday, 28 October 2013, 16:45
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
After eleven years as one of the most effective traditional country singers of his generation, Joe Nichols crosses over to rocking contemporary songs, most of them about seducing young women and...
Blues museum to call St. Louis home, sweet home
Monday, 28 October 2013, 16:36
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Die-hard music lovers, casual fans and globe-trotting tourists readily embrace Chicago as the home of the blues, spurred in large part by the Great Migration northward of Southern blacks in...
A season of Cumberbatch starts with 'Fifth Estate'
Monday, 28 October 2013, 15:06
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
It was the day before shooting began on "The Fifth Estate" when Benedict Cumberbatch, as he was trying on blond wigs for the last time, heard back from Julian Assange, the man he was to...
76 foreign language films to compete for Oscar
Monday, 28 October 2013, 15:04
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
The foreign language Oscar competition this year will be wider than it ever has been before. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Monday that a record 73 countries,...