Stories for 17 February 2005

Entertainment Cinema

Sideways

TAKE a cast made up largely of unknowns and throw them into a script that involves a tour of California's wine country.  more...

Entertainment Cktv

NIGHT OF A THOUSAND YAWNS

IT was the perfect antidote for insomnia - Stephen Fry in overdrive and Bruce Willis with brain fade. Yes, Saturday was a good night for fighting the urge to switch on the box.  more...

Entertainment Dvd

The Village (12)

ACCORDING to the blurb on the back of the DVD, somebody from the London Evening Standard described The Village as 'the scariest film of the year'.  more...

Some Kind of Monster (15)

IN Some Kind of Monster, a documentary that follows the travails of heavy metal giants Metallica, we watch a band of equally giant egos disintegrate and somehow come back together again.  more...

Entertainment Guru

His voice carried the sound of a Harley Davidson back-firing in a vat of syrup.

His sentences were swelled by Californian affectation. Words crept out of his mouth and settled on the table in front of him.  more...

Entertainment Musicreviews

The Best of The Boomtown Rats

UNTIL Live Aid blasted Bob Geldof into orbit, I had always assumed him to be the kind of man who would steal his own car and The Boomtown Rats frankly, as a unwelcome gatecrashers to punk's unholy party.  more...

Hanson, Underneath

I HAVE a vivid memory of battering cod to the sound of MMMBop back in the summer of 1997.   more...

The Others, The Others

DARLINGS of the 'Sarf Lahndon' scene that apparently thrives betwixt Bermondsey and Catford, The Others, if the listener is in a suitably sullen mood, are a thoroughly irksome gang of cockney oiks; precisely the kind of people you don't want to sit around you on the train from Euston.  more...