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'One Direction: This is us' - extended fan cut

Wednesday, 18 September 2013, 14:45 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

In response to the fan support at the box office for TriStar Pictures’ hit film One Direction: This Is Us, the studio is releasing an extended cut of the film which will come to Malta cinemas...

Patton, Thicke have clear lines on jealousy, work

Friday, 13 September 2013, 16:02 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Paula Patton is having the best summer ever.   Professionally, the 37-year-old actress is busy promoting the romantic comedy "Baggage Claim," which opens Sept. 27. "2...

'The Maid's Version' is superbly textured novel

Friday, 13 September 2013, 15:44 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

"The Maid's Version" (Little, Brown and Company), by Daniel Woodrell   It's been several years since the publication of Daniel Woodrell's slim, harrowing and...

The 1975 mix it up on debut album

Thursday, 12 September 2013, 16:27 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The 1975, "The 1975" (Dirty Hit/Polydor)   The 1975's self-titled debut is a mixed bag. Jumping from guitar-heavy indie hits to disco funk dance-floor tracks, the boys from...

'Mortal Instruments' a monster mash

Thursday, 12 September 2013, 15:59 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

A young adult fiction binge has broken out in "Mortal Instruments: City of Bones."   Like an 80-car pill-up, all of the current tropes of teenage fantasy here careen into one...

Reporters look inside NYPD's spy unit

Thursday, 12 September 2013, 15:42 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

"Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden's Final Plot Against America" (Touchstone Books), by Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman   In their reporting...

Slight songs mar Neko Case's latest

Wednesday, 11 September 2013, 16:26 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Neko Case, "The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You" (Anti-)   Neko Case has a neat name, a terrific Twitter account and a brazen, brassy...

Despite the bombs, Hollywood posts a record summer

Wednesday, 11 September 2013, 15:58 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

In the end, Hollywood made it through a precarious minefield of summer box-office bombs with a heftier wallet. The summer concluded with a record $4.7 billion in box-office revenue despite much...

Notable biography examines dogged conservationist

Wednesday, 11 September 2013, 15:41 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

"The Most Defiant Devil: William Temple Hornaday & His Controversial Crusade to Save American Wildlife" (University of Virginia Press), by Gregory J. Dehler   Irony alert: The...

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