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Beethoven weekend to be highlight
9:00am Tuesday 30th December 2008
BEETHOVEN and Haydn will feature in that marvellous series of chamber music recitals in Wallingford, Music At St Peter’s, in the coming year.
Comments (0)Pantomime fun will be at double
9:00am Tuesday 30th December 2008
AT the Corn Exchange, Wallingford, there will be not one, but two Puss in Boots, next month.
Bicycle Thieves
2:19pm Tuesday 23rd December 2008
Among a film critic’s duties, as another year draws to a close, is to assess the trends that have shaped our viewing habits over the past 12 months. Among the notable aspects of 2008 has been the number of classic pictures that have been revived for theatrical release.
Australia and Bedtime Stories
2:17pm Tuesday 23rd December 2008
Since his eye-catching 1992 debut, the ugly duckling fairy-tale Strictly Ballroom, Australian writer/director Baz Luhrmann has left us in a swoon with beautifully crafted stories of romance across the social and cultural divide. His daring reinterpretation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes married dazzling spectacle with devastating emotion, qualities echoed in the Oscar nominated musical Moulin Rouge!.
Festival hopes to repeat success of 2007 event
11:34am Monday 22nd December 2008
GOOD new for lovers of music of all kinds is that there will be another Dorchester Festival staged in 2009.
Donated costumes to provide nostalgic show
9:00am Wednesday 17th December 2008
THE wonderful costumes given by the people of Wallingford and surrounding villages to the Sinodun Players are having a special outing.
Cable drums prove an inspiration
9:00am Wednesday 17th December 2008
PROVING that science and art can mix has been Oxford artist Sharon Wyper who has an exhibition at John Mason School in Abingdon.
White Christmas, la Boheme and Mum & Dad
2:58pm Wednesday 17th December 2008
ith the exception of It’s a Wonderful Life, there probably isn’t a firmer festive favourite than Michael Curtiz’s White Christmas (1954). It’s essentially a sentimental rehash of Holiday Inn (1942), in which Bing Crosby first introduced Irving Berlin’s hokey yuletide anthem, which remains the best-selling song of all time. How you view it very much depends on your tolerance threshold for Danny Kaye, as his shameless mugging overbalances a slight conceit that was largely contrived to exploit the patriotic nostalgia attending the passage of the first decade after the Second World War.
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr Hunter S. Thompson
3:00pm Wednesday 17th December 2008
aving explored the corrupt nature of US corporatism in Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) and exposed abuses at Guantanamo Bay in the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), Alex Gibney has scaled down with his latest outing, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. That’s not to say that his documentary lacks ambition, however, as this is a warts ‘n’ all insight into the thoughts and deeds of the maverick who revolutionised journalism in the 1960s.
Choirs are tuning up for the festival week
9:00am Wednesday 10th December 2008
SINGERS in choirs around Wallingford and in the town itself are getting their voices and repertoire in tip-top condition for the Wallingford Choir Festival in the first week of March.
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