Owner: The Arts Section URL:http://the-arts-section.blogspot.com/ Join Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:03:23 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: A collection of published and unpublished cultural review pieces by an accomplished freelance writer on cinema, theatre, books, dvds, television and music. Site statistics:Click here
The Darjeeling Limited 2008-04-14 06:55:37 WES Anderson walks into a bar donned in a white suit, spills his typically pastel-coloured smoothie on his lap, and leaves the bar without a mark on it.
Not the set-up for a woeful comedic turn, but...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Stardust 2008-04-11 05:17:17 IT seems virtually every movie trailer these days features the same tag line designed to cash in on the void left by the books of the boy wizard: ‘it's up one boy to save the world.'
So it was only a...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
To Change China: Western Advisers In China 2008-04-07 06:51:00 JONATHAN D. Spence, a British-born historian and Sterling Professor at Yale, sums up the motives for Western
ers coming to China
in a single sentence: "Implicit in most of their actions was a more...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Read more:Change
Frankie Boyle, The Arts Theatre 2008-04-07 06:29:43 MOCK THE WEEK star FrankieBoyle
does what few other comedians do with big sell-out tours. He tells jokes, brilliant jokes, one after the other and then goes home.
And by stripping away all the...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Nicholas Nickleby, Gielgud Theatre 2008-04-07 06:22:15 NICHOLAS Nickleby is an unmissable treat this festive season and is as buttery and nutty as a mince pie, served with a schooner of sweet sherry.
Although darker than the original 1980 adaptation,...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Read more:Nicholas
The Lilia Kopylova Interview 2008-04-07 06:15:25 ARRIVING at the London dance studio to meet Strictly Come Dancing’s Lilia Kopylova, I felt like I'd stepped into a Dickensian nightmare.
Wiry women with ramrod backs and steel abs were screeching at...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
The Counterfeiters 2008-03-17 12:43:53 KATE WINSLET famously proclaimed in Ricky Gervais' Extras that any film about the Holocaust is virtually guaranteed a gaggle of shiny gongs come awards season.
And yep, The Counterfeiters did in...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Casino Royale 2008-03-17 10:51:42 ON the big screen, Daniel Craig has shown himself capable of taking on a British icon: a man of cool, cruel resolve, mesmerising sex appeal and a deadly destructive way with dames.
But that's...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Read more:Casino
, Royale
, Casino Royale
Batman Begins 2008-03-17 10:38:42 AS the title suggests, this new offering from director Christopher Nolan sets out to be radically different from the series inaugurated by Tim Burton's Batman
in 1989 and trashed by Joel Schumacher's...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Read more:Batman Begins
Walk the Line 2008-03-17 10:29:49 EVER since Elvis copped it on the crapper, the mix of pop and problems has excited almost as many TV movies as broken homes and bowel cancer.
Musicians, we are constantly reminded, sing songs of...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Match Point 2008-03-17 10:16:19 IN a recent interview, Woody Allen, who turns 70 this year, remarked, "All that crap they tell you about getting joy and having a kind of wisdom in your golden years — it's all tripe."
But if his...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Read more:Match
Pirates of the Caribbean 3 2008-03-17 10:04:38 IN the approaching months, it seems every film will have a digit after the title – a worryingly high digit, in most cases – like the first half of a catastrophic score line in which the second half...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Read more:Pirates
, Caribbean
Surf's Up 2008-03-17 09:48:45 SURF'S UP is another animated film about those cute and adorable penguins that we fell in love with during March of the Penguins and Happy Feet.
And this new flick even manages to parody a...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
The Simpsons Movie 2008-03-17 09:48:45 THE Simpsons
stormed the big screen with a well-written script, filled with fast paced gags, great animation and fantastic set pieces.
Yet for some reason its DVD release somehow manages to lose much...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Spider-Man 3 2008-03-15 16:27:11 IT seems that all superheroes have to be ‘dark' these days in order to demonstrate their utter seriousness and counteract ‘geek' tags thrown at them by those who don't regularly inhabit comic book...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Read more:Spider
Doctor Who - Voyage of the Damned 2008-03-12 10:16:14 CHRISTMAS may be a time for goodwill to all men, but that old saying conveniently avoids 900-year-old Converse plimsoll wearing Timelords.
Funnily enough, it also leaves out robot angels with killer...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Read more:Doctor
, Voyage
Ricky Gervais: Fame 2008-03-10 12:18:54 A FEW months ago critics came gunning for RickyGervais
saying that he'd lost it and was no longer funny anymore – were they all having a laugh?
Because not only was his third stand-up tour the...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Lee Mead - Lead Mead 2008-03-10 12:15:29 ALBUM: LEAD MEAD - Lee Mead (Polydor)
This debut album from Andrew Lloyd Webber's new leading man is a fairly solid start to his recording career - but at times, this first effort is as unimaginative...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Amy Winehouse - Love Is A Losing Game 2008-03-10 12:03:50 SINGLE: AMY WINEHOUSE - Love Is A Losing Game (Island/Universal)
This fantasically enchanting new single from Amy Winehouse
's universally acclaimed album "Back To Black" is quite simply...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Read more:Amy Winehouse
John Barrowman - Another Side 2008-03-10 11:58:59 ALBUM: JOHN BARROWMAN – Another Side (Sony BMG)
THERE'S not a lot wrong with John Barrowman – the all-singing, all-dancing, American pansexual and saviour of the Universe (AKA TV’s Torchwood) – and...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
QI: The B Series 2008-04-19 09:18:23 TAKE one legendary comedian slash actor, renowned for his magnificent wit and, let's be honest, really Quite Intelligence (Stephen Fry).
Mix said national treasure with yet another part comedian...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Coldplay - Violet Hill 2008-05-05 14:18:07 THEY'VE been described as a incredibly morose group, producing music for students who still wet the bed, and the Dulux equivalent of comatose beige.
Like them or loathe them, Coldplay are back with...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Alvin And The Chipmunks 2008-05-07 07:12:57 THE once great Hollywood film industry is officially on its knees.
Creatively spent, full of unhappy striking writers, and now left to rummage through the toy box and exhuming the mothballed cartoons...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Read more:Alvin
Family Guys Presents: Blue Harvest 2008-05-12 09:17:51 A LONG time ago, yet somehow in the future, a couple of Star Wars loving nerds decided to make a cartoon of their favourite film.
Sounds like something worth avoiding as far as the Hoth System,...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Read more:Family
, Presents
, Harvest
Iron Man 2008-05-27 05:06:10 PICTURE the scene: King of the fairies Al Gore wakes up in the middle of the night sweating and screaming carbon neutrally about a terrible nightmare.
He remembers horrifying images of incredibly...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Read more:Iron Man
The Savages 2008-06-09 10:13:49 DYSFUNCTIONAL families are big business in an American film industry ridiculously bent on exploiting the supposed grim realities that exist in relationships.
Concepts of reality in the...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull 2008-07-04 18:25:35 WHEN Raiders Of The Lost Ark came out in 1981, the trio of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford were forever etched onto the annals of cinema as an unstoppable force.
In Lucas they had...
A brilliant collection of witty and well-informed pieces on culture, arts, music, cinema, theatre, books and television reviews.
Read more:Indiana
, Kingdom
, Crystal
, Skull
, Indiana Jones
Recommend Site To A Friend
