As usual, the vagaries of holiday deadlines mean that, just as you are arriving back at work to gleefully greet the New Year, here I am to tell you all…
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For this writer, the 9/11 terrorist attacks were the defining global event of my lifetime. It was the day when anything became possible - even the utterly unthinkable. It was…
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This week Philip Seymour Hoffman features in two new American sports movies, one about their most venerable - if not impenetrable - pastime of baseball and the other on the…
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Stars are important. Despite their supposedly waning influence on box office (Avatar managed perfectly well without a marquee name and Bruce Willis hasn’t carried a hit film in years) the…
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Welcome to the 2010 “cut out and keep” guide to video renting (or downloading or however you consume your home entertainment these days). I suggest you clip this article, fold…
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Twickenham in 1961 might well have been the most boring place on Earth. The 60s haven’t started yet (according to Philip Larkin the decade wouldn’t start until 1963 “between the…
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