Thor Blimey
An athletic pensioner who missed the Olympics because of war has broken a British record for hammer throwing – at the age of 80. Warwick Dixon threw 35.87 metres at an open meeting at his athlet ...
LIFESTYLE
August at the movies
Joyce Glasser gives us a round up of the August movies If Ruth & Alex, which was released at the end of July, makes it into August, it will mark the first time in film history when two English spe ...
Paula’s Wines of the Week starting 24 August 2015
It’s going to be a settled and slightly breezy Bank Holiday according to The Met Office. So why not get out and enjoy the last of the vague summer warmth with a picnic? A picnic with a difference that ...
Films by John Boorman, Alexander Mackendrick, Georges Franju and Orson Welles
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs QUEEN AND COUNTRY (Artificial Eye) is a belated sequel to John Boorman’s autobiographical and nostalgic Hope and Glory (1987). He looks back to the time when he ...