Stories for 20 January 2005

Entertainment Cinema

Million Dollar Baby (12A)

MILLION Dollar Baby appears to be a regular feelgood movie in which we see a poor redneck girl overcome her poverty to become a successful boxer.  more...

Closer (15)

WHAT a paradox. I assumed Closer would be a conventional love story, though love is the very thing absent in this scathing portrayal of contemporary relationships.   more...

Entertainment Cktv

FITZ IS STILL A CRACKER!

THEY say that class is permanent, and this is certainly true of what I would say is the best crime series ever screened on British television.  more...

Entertainment Dvd

Work It, (CD & DVD)

ACCORDING to the blurb, Work It is the 'ultimate all in one fitness accessory'.  more...

Pump It Up, (CD & DVD)

MY, my, my - it appears that teenage boys across the land now have the perfect excuse to watch rerun after rerun of the infamous Eric Prydz video Call On Me.  more...

Hellboy (12)

HELLBOY is far from your typical, glamorous, comic book superhero. Ron Perlman is not the most attractive of blokes to start off with - but with his Hellboy make-up he looks like a bull that has been hit by a tank.   more...

Entertainment Guru

"So do New Order still exist, Rob?" This was the question I posed to the late Rob Gretton, idiosyncr

He was sitting in a café bar in Manchester's Whitworth Street.  more...

Entertainment Musicreviews

Eye to the Telescope, KT Tunstall

THERE may not have too much brouhaha in the debut of Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, but listening to her album is all the publicity this girl could need.  more...

The Killers, (single), Somebody Told Me

THE release of a Killers single is always something to look forward to - and Somebody Told Me is no exception.  more...

Grease, the soundtrack

JUST why Grease has become a landmark in the history of movies is way beyond me.  more...

Four Kicks, (single) Kings of Leon

Once the darlings of shabby retro chic, Kings of Leon existed in a hurried space where Deep Purple would move to Seattle, (and lose Jon Lord's crazed mock Booker T Hammond sound along the way).  more...