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The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Not since Harry Potter first cast a spell over cinema audiences has a franchise based on a series of best-selling novels been as completely critic-proof as The Twilight Saga. The good-looking cast could probably stare silently into the camera for two ...

From IAN HARVEY, Shropshire Star,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert Pattinson,  Harry Potter,  Stephenie Meyer,  Chris Weitz,  Taylor Lautner

A Serious Man

If fortune truly favours the brave, it’s no surprise that the hen-pecked, mild-mannered mensch at the centre of Joel and Ethan Coen’s new black comedy is pummelled senseless by bad luck. Set in a Jewish community in mid-1960s Minneapolis reminiscent of ...

From IAN HARVEY, Shropshire Star,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ethan Coen

The Informant!

We all want to do the right thing, but few of us ever put ourselves on the line for the sake of a greater good. In the early 1990s, family man Mark Whitacre decided to blow the whistle on a global price-fixing scam in the agricultural industry by ...

From IAN HARVEY, Shropshire Star,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Mark Whitacre,  Archer Daniels Midland,  Steven Soderbergh,  Kurt Eichenwald

Tribute to stand-in as he nails Yes classics

Exactly twenty-nine years ago this week, prog rock supergroup Yes courted controversy at Birmingham Odeon by fielding another singer in the place of the band’s beloved Jon Anderson. On that occasion it was Buggles frontman Trevor Horn, in a performance ...

From IAN HARVEY, Express & Star,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jon Anderson,  Trevor Horn,  Rick Wakeman,  Steve Howe

CarMD

T here's nothing that panics some people as much as when the “check engine” light goes on in your car for no apparent reason and you rush to the service garage to discover it just needed a reset. Truth is, there could be 100 different reasons that light ...

From IAN HARVEY, Globe and Mail,  15 Nov 2009

Linksys Powerline Network

W ifi is certainly sweet, but there are places it just won't go. Depending on your home's configuration and materials you may find more than a few dead spots and the addendum to Murphy's Law says they're most likely to be where you really need Web ...

From IAN HARVEY, Globe and Mail,  15 Nov 2009

Taking Woodstock

‘If you can remember Woodstock, you weren’t there’ – or so the saying goes. Thank goodness then for Oscar-winning director Ang Lee and screenwriter James Schamus, who collaborate once again on this recreation of the music festival that defined a ...

From IAN HARVEY, Shropshire Star,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ang Lee,  Demetri Martin,  Imelda Staunton,  Eugene Levy

2012

Cancel the London Summer Olympic Games! Our time on the third rock from the sun will come to a dramatic end on December 21, 2012, when planets align as decreed by the Mayan calendar. Thus no-one is going to care a jot about whether our stadia are ...

From IAN HARVEY, Shropshire Star,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Roland Emmerich,  John Cusack,  Amanda Peet,  Tom McCarthy,  Woody Harrelson

Amelia

A film about the first woman of aviation – who recklessly inspired millions of women to break gender boundaries and whose life was cut short in enduringly mysterious circumstances – should be the stuff of studio executives’ dreams, right? Well, ...

From IAN HARVEY, Shropshire Star,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Amelia Earhart,  Hilary Swank,  Mira Nair,  Richard Gere,  Ewan McGregor

Elite performance from Shinedown at Wulfrun

Relentless touring is paying off for Florida rockers Shinedown as they packed out the Wulfrun Hall in Wolverhampton. Along with the likes of Black Stone Cherry and The Answer, Shinedown are among a select group of bands threatening to break into the ...

From IAN HARVEY, Express & Star,  11 Nov 2009

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