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Teachers go back to learning
9:00am Wednesday 10th December 2008
TEACHERS at Cranford House School, Moulsford, have become pupils again and it’s all for a good cause.
Comments (0)The Man from London and Lemon Tree
3:52pm Wednesday 10th December 2008
Henri Decoin filmed Georges Simenon's novella The Man from London in 1943. Had anyone but Béla Tarr produced the latest adaptation, it would probably have been hailed as an intriguing mystery and a sumptuous exercise in cinematic artistry. But we’ve come to expect more of the Hungarian auteur and there’s a vacuum at the heart of this slow-burning, existentialist noir.
Dean Spanley, North Face and Love and Honour
3:50pm Wednesday 10th December 2008
On first reading the blurb for Dean Spanley in the London Film Festival programme, it seemed as though Toa Fraser’s adaptation of Lord Dunsany’s obscure 1936 novella, My Talks With Dean Spanley, was destined for a mixed reception. But such is the quiet charm of this rarified period piece that it looks set to become a firm Christmas favourite and one of the sleeper hits of 2008.
Delight and sadness at rehearsals success
9:00am Wednesday 3rd December 2008
More than 100 young people keen to be on stage in a production of Peter Pan in Wallingford who turned up for rehearsals left organiser Polly Gibson both delighted and upset.
Arts guild gets off to good start
9:00am Wednesday 3rd December 2008
The inaugural meeting of Wantage and Grove District Arts Guild got the organisation off to a good start, said chairman Bob McLatchie.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
3:37pm Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Animal magic is in short supply in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, a colourful computer-animated sequel for the entire family which cheekily recycles the plot of The Lion King. Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath's film strands its menagerie of misfits in the wild, where they discover the courage to follow their hearts and to reclaim a birthright as king of the jungle.
Flawless, Rivalsand Julia
3:35pm Wednesday 3rd December 2008
The older he gets, the more Michael Caine seems to be happier with nostalgia than novelty. He featured in Sylvester Stallone’s dismal remake of Get Carter, assumed the Laurence Olivier role in Kenneth Branagh's wholly unnecessary reworking of Sleuth and spoofed his Harry Palmer spy persona in Austin Powers in Goldmember. He’s even butled for Batman. But nowhere has Caine seemed more comfortable of late than as the janitor planning a diamond heist in Michael Radford’s period romp, Flawless.
Season's Greetings, Old Gaol Theatre Company, Unicorn Theatre, Abingdon, Dec 3-6
9:00am Wednesday 26th November 2008
THE Old Gaol Theatre Company at Abingdon is celebrating its 30th birthday this Christmas and will celebrate by staging Alan Ayckbourn’s somewhat jaundiced view of family Christmases, Season’s Greetings.
The Accrington Pals, Kingston Bagpuize Drama Group, Southmoor village hall, Nov 27-29
9:00am Wednesday 26th November 2008
THIS year being the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War, Kingston Bagpuize Drama Group is staging the very moving play, The Accrington Pals, by Peter Whelan.
Four Christmases and Changeling
3:01pm Wednesday 26th November 2008
Rumours of an on-set feud between lead stars Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn hardly echo the tidings of comfort and joy espoused by Seth Gordon’s romantic comedy Four Christmases. "We've just got to get through these four Christmases as quickly and painlessly as possible,” grimaces Witherspoon's plucky heroine as she stares down the barrel of back-to-back celebrations with her divorced parents and the in-laws. By the end of the first act, we realise with mounting horror that director Gordon and his four screenwriters have no intention of granting her (and therefore us) that wish.
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