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 ...
LIFESTYLE
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 ...
Snake in the Himalayan mountains causes two deaths
Robert Tanitch reviews La Bayadere at London Coliseum Marius Petipa’s faux oriental extravaganza, one of the great 19th century ballets, had its premiere in St Petersburg in 1877, the year Queen Victo ...