Inside AlUla, Saudi Arabia, where monuments are older than the pyramids October 17, 2022 Just when you think you’ve grasped how ancient the city of AlUla, Saudi Arabia is, you stumble upon an even older part, and then another, each earlier still. By the time someone mentions palaeolithic axe-heads from 200,000 years ago, a 12th century Islamic town is beginning to sound contemporary. What’s made all this Indiana Jones [...]
Citroen Ami review: Are friends electric? October 17, 2022 Priced from £7,695, the Citroen Ami is a tiny electric 'car' billed as an alternative to a bicycle or moped. We drive it in central London.
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile is an animate movie made for the big screen October 15, 2022 Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile will be a confusing prospect for parents taking their little ones out for a cinema trip. Based on a 60s children’s book that is beloved in America but less known here, the film is brought to the screen by the directors of adult comedy Blades of Glory and co-stars Javier Bardem, the [...]
All Quiet On The Western Front review: A timely remake of a war classic October 15, 2022 History may be told by the victors, but the viewpoint of a losing army has led to some fascinating cinematic classics. Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet On The Western Front, already adapted into a seminal 1930 Hollywood film, is adapted again in its native language, and loses none of its impact. The anti-war epic [...]
Good at the Harold Pinter theatre sees David Tennant on fine form as a reluctant Nazi October 15, 2022 CP Taylor’s 1981 play is a strange beast, the action tumbling through space and time as David Tennant’s professor John Halder recalls the events leading up to the Holocaust, for which he is accidentally, kind-of responsible for, in a roundabout way. Halder is a literary professor in 1930s Germany who once wrote a novel about [...]
Finding new ways to treat cataracts October 14, 2022 | City Talk Professor Barbara Pierscionek, Deputy Dean for Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine and Social Care at Anglia Ruskin University. One of the worst fears is that of blindness. The great tragedy of the modern world is that so many people have sight impairment and that so much of this is preventable. In [...]
Plan your weekend: Top art and theatre to keep you entertained October 14, 2022 We’re into the most congested part of the London cultural calendar, with top new art and theatre coming thick and fast. If you’re unsure how to approach your weekend, relax, we have you covered. THE POLTERGEIST The Poltergeist is a darkly comic story about Sasha, an art prodigy who had celebrities queuing up to buy [...]
Rosaline film review: A smart rom-com set for cult status October 14, 2022 There have been many attempts to modernise Shakespeare over the years, but for every Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet there are numerous forgotten failures. Disney’s new romantic comedy, Rosaline, takes a different approach to a very famous story, and succeeds against the odds. Told with modern dialogue, this is the story of Romeo and Juliet [...]
The Band’s Visit, Donmar Warehouse, review: Great musical performances October 14, 2022 The Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra have been booked to appear at the opening of an Arab cultural centre in Petah Tikva, part of metropolitan Tel Aviv. But a misunderstanding while ordering bus tickets at the airport finds the band stranded overnight in Bet Hatikva, a fictional nowheresville in the middle of the Negev Desert. What [...]
The Boy with Two Hearts, National Theatre, review: Poignant tale of love October 14, 2022 The Boy With Two Hearts is a true story turned into a book by Hamed and Hessam Amiri, about their own journey from Herat to Cardiff, focusing on their brother Hussein and his chronic heart condition. Transformed into a play by Phil Porter and the Wales Millennium Centre, it is a poignant tale of love [...]
