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Casablanca in big screen revival

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

THE 70th anniversary of Casablanca provides the perfect excuse for a big-screen revival of one of the most beloved and enduring of Hollywood classics.

The Vow

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

LOVE is lovelier the second time around, at least that's what hopelessly devoted Channing Tatum is banking on in The Vow, a shameless dollop of schmaltzy romance that arrives just in the nick of time for that all important Valentine's Day date.

Casablanca

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

THE 70th anniversary of Casablanca provides the perfect excuse for a big-screen revival of one of the most beloved and enduring of Hollywood classics.

Casablanca

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

THE 70th anniversary of Casablanca provides the perfect excuse for a big-screen revival of one of the most beloved and enduring of Hollywood classics.

My six best books

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

FILM and television actress Celia Imrie, 59, is best known for Calendar Girls and her work with Victoria Wood. She is appearing in Noises Off at the Old Vic and her autobiography The Happy Hoofer is out now. This Thursday she will be on stage at the Criterion Theatre as part of their Lunchtimes With... series, www.criterion- theatre.co.uk

Pick of the paperbacks

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Me Before you 4/5 by Jojo Moyes Penguin, £7.99 LOU CLARK is a creature of habit so when her routine is broken she has to find something else to keep her sane.

Fishing in the murky waters of slippery family secrets

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The White Lie 4/5 by Andrea Gillies Short Books £12.99 A YOUNG woman charges into the drawing room of her parents' estate in the Highlands.

Mad times that rocked a generation

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

AS MICK Jagger said: "The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness."

Mad times that rocked a generation

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

All the MadMen: BArrett, Bowie, drAke, Pink Floyd, the kinks, the who And A Journey to the dArk side of British Rock 2/5 by Clinton Heylin AS MICK Jagger said: "The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness."

Return to dark side is a howling success

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The Wolf Gift 5/5 by Anne Rice Chatto & Windus, £18.99 WELCOME back Anne Rice. The author of Interview With A Vampire and the subsequent slew of luscious, humid gothic extravaganzas known as The Vampire Chronicles has been away for too long.

London in the Sixties

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

London In The Sixties by Rainer Metzger Thames & Hudson, £28 IT was the decade of innovation and inspiration powered by youth, affluence and the explosion of the mass media.

Johnny English Reborn

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

UNREMARKABLE sequel that restores Rowan Atkinson's clueless secret agent to active service. James Bond spoof that fails to make the most of Atkinson's talents.

Abduction

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

INANE chase thriller with Twilight pin-up Taylor Lautner as a teenage action man who finds himself on the run from the CIA, Serbian baddies and anyone with a fondness for black clothes and shifty looks.

Hesher

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

OODBALL, entertaining black comedy with Joseph Gordon-Levitt on gleeful form as a tattooed, anarchic force of nature who strolls into the life of 13-year-old TJ as he struggles with the death of his mother and the grief that has gripped his father.

Big Miracle film review and trailer

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

BIG Miracle is another good half-term bet, though for older children. It tells the dramatic true story of a US-led rescue effort in 1988 to free three trapped whales from ice in the northernmost reaches of Alaska.

The Muppets movie film review and trailer

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

KERMIT and Miss Piggy have more star quality than half the A-listers in Hollywood and make a welcome return to the big screen with The Muppets, a fun, feel-good muppets' movie bursting with song and good cheer.

The Vow film review and trailer

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

DO you promise to stand by your true love in sickness and in health and while suffering grievous memory loss?

The Woman in Black film review and trailer

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

WELL, Daniel Radcliffe grew up fast. Making an impressive transition from child star to leading man the Harry Potter moppet plays a father and a widower in The Woman In Black.

Exclusive short story: Going anywhere nice? by Alison McQueen

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

GOING anywhere nice for your holidays?" asked the girl with the scissors.

Opera Review: Cosi Fan Tutte, Royal Opera House

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

TALES involving infidelity and spouse-swapping scarcely raise an eyebrow these days, but for most of the 19th century, Mozart's comic opera on that theme was considered too risqué for the moral climate of the time and Cosi Fan Tutte was rarely performed.

Opera review: Der Rosenkavalier, English National Opera

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

THERE is a scene towards the end of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier in which three female voices are joined in a trio which starts with each expressing different reasons for the anguish that besets them, and ends with them all reconciling their problems.

Diane Disney: Lady and the Tramp is feat of success for dad

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

WALT Disney's daughter Diane might be getting on but she has inherited the inner steel that helped to propel her father to the top.

Review: This Isn't The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

PURE JOY just about sums up Jon McGregor's collection of short stories. Ranging from just two lines, Song (Grimsby), to 30 pages, I'll Buy You A Shovel (Marshchapel), and using the towns of the Norfolk Fenlands as settings, McGregor goes for the underview of life.

Review: The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

As a TEENAGER I lost countless nights' sleep to Pan's collections of ghostly short stories, partly because I could never stop turning the pages, partly because they were haunting, the kind of tales which kept you awake, literally hearing bumps in the night.

Review: Rin Tin Tin: The Life And Legend Of The World's Most Famous Dog

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

HE was the movie icon who at his peak earned eight times more than his co-stars. He was the big screen hero who was given the keys to the city of New York, was loved by Greta Garbo and only one small problem denied him an Oscar: he was a dog.