Out of retirement plan, into the fire October 21, 2010 FILM RED Cert: 12A Helen Mirren firing a machine gun – that’s the Big Sell on this picture, and it’s a pretty good one. Mirren is a prim, proper, elegant English lady – as always (and that’s the point). She lives in a gorgeous house in the American countryside and also just happens to be [...]
OUT THIS WEEKEND October 21, 2010 FILM CARLOS Film charting the career of the feared Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal. EASY A Surprisingly okay high school comedy with Superbad’s Emma Stone. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 Effective bigger budget sequel to last year’s DIY chiller. DVD WHEN IN ROME Airheaded rom com with Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel and That Guy From Napoleon Dynamite. [...]
Snuggle up this winter in toasty tidbits of knitwear October 21, 2010 AS I write this, there are four people in my line of vision who are huddled in their coats, cradling hot cups of tea. The cold snap has given everyone the urgent need to snuggle up and be warm and cosy but many of us seem to be caught short – our wardrobes still with [...]
RINGING IN THE NEW WITH THE OLD October 21, 2010 HAVE you put away your summer clothing yet, and brought out your winter stuff? Now’s the perfect time if you haven’t already done so. I always find it quite exciting to retrieve last winter’s clothing, taking it out of the tissue (I always pack it away clean, folded and wrapped), as if you’ve just been [...]
FASHION NEWS October 21, 2010 EDEN PARK FOR RFU Rugby just got a fashionable kick: smart and sporty menswear firm Eden Park has announced a six year partnership with the Rugby Football Union that will see Eden Park kit out all the England squads, management and backroom staff. Snazzy. PETER JONES WATCH SHOP The Sloane Square stalwart has undergone a [...]
OUT OF OFFICE October 21, 2010 JOIN IN THE BIG DRAW Award-winning cartoonists Steve Bell, Peter Brookes, Michael Heath and Posy Simmonds, creator of Tamara Drewe, will be in situ to preview the Big Draw’s Battle of the?Cartoonists today on giant easels set up on the top floor of City Hall, overlooking the panorama of London. The Big Draw, organised by [...]
A Qatari takes on Wall St October 20, 2010 KAPITOIL BY TEDDY WAYNE Duckworth, £8.99 IT’S 1 October, 1999 and Karim, a genius computer progammer from Doha, is landing in New York. He’s been brought to help a company called Schrub Equities protect itself from the Y2K bug – New York’s biggest security concern at the time. The opening of this first novel by [...]
OUT OF OFFICE October 20, 2010 LAST CALL: ENLIGHTMENT IN HAMPSTEAD Director Ed Hall’s new tenure at the Hampstead Theatre got off to an amusing start with Enlightenment – a play that is stylish and wide-ranging, if not particularly enlightening. Lia and Nick lose their 20-year-old son in a terrorist attack in the Far East. Things becomes sadder and odder from [...]
LIFE COACH October 20, 2010 EVERY smart chap should have a smart watch, and preferably more than one – the sheer diversity of classy watches out there means that the old idea of making your money, buying a Rolex and having that as your one watch is no longer current. Different watches can be worn for different occasions or moods, [...]
It’s the season of the most celebrated ingredient of all October 20, 2010 ALL this talk of tightening belts is enough to make one want to do precisely the opposite. Thankfully, when it comes to big, indulgent blowouts of the kind where the only important cut is that of the expensive meat on your plate, the most indulgent ingredient of them all is in season. The “Alba Madonna” [...]
