Sunday 2nd December 2007
Originally published in The Sunday Telegraph
Filed under Film
Filed under Features
Hairspray
Who can forget John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever? He is no less unforgettable here, as a woman in a 30lb fat-suit.
Sunday 2nd December 2007
Originally published in The Sunday Telegraph
Filed under Film
Filed under Features
The Bourne Ultimatum
The final part of the Bourne trilogy is also the best, with United 93 director Paul Greengrass bringing his unique style of hyper-realism to the action movie genre with exhilarating results.
Sunday 2nd December 2007
Originally published in The Sunday Telegraph
Filed under Film
Filed under Features
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The boy wizard is back. With Harry and Dumbledore’s warning about the return of the evil Lord Voldemort ignored, a sinister bureaucrat takes control of Hogwarts.
I wouldn’t use the word “abject”, but there is no way to view my attempt to give up alcohol as anything other than a failure.
Disaster! I had agreed to give up alcohol for Lent but had completely forgotten about a friend’s wedding.
As soon as I decided to give up alcohol, I wondered what I had done…
Not only am I cheap, but I am also lazy, so I decided to do my Chelsea challenge entirely on the internet. I avoided the panicking crowds, miserable weather and over-eager sales people, and am now free to luxuriate in sloth and parsimony.