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Review: Four Christmases, Running time: 88 minutes too long, Certificate:12A
10:28am Friday 28th November 2008
AFTER Four Weddings And A Funeral, here comes Four Christmases and a turkey.
Comments (0)Review: Body Of Lies, Running time: 128mins, Certificate: 15
10:03am Friday 21st November 2008
AFTER Oliver Stone’s surprisingly empathetic W, Ridley Scott sees out George W Bush’s troubled years on foreign soil with a trademark tense thriller.
Review: Max Payne; Running time: 10mins Certificate: 15
9:56am Friday 14th November 2008
HOLLYWOOD has it easy, lazily borrowing from books and now, increasingly but less successfully, from computer games.
Re-introducing Australian film director Stephan Elliott
10:02am Friday 7th November 2008
WHATEVER happened to Stephan Elliott, the Australian director of the queen of all camp movies, The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert?
Review: Ghost Town; Running time: 102mins; Certificate: 12A
9:59am Friday 24th October 2008
WHAT’S this? Funny turn Ricky Gervais in a Hollywood romantic comedy, playing the leading man, in a “throwback to what Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant might have done in the 1940s or 1950s”?
Big-time opera on the big screen
11:08am Friday 10th October 2008
Fancy a night at the opera without all the palaver? Face-to-face with international stars while you wear a T-shirt and jeans? With all the thrills (and occasionally spills) of live performance? The answer can be found at City Screen, York.
Preview: Arctic Monkeys At The Apollo, City Screen, York, October 14
11:17am Friday 10th October 2008
Arctic Monkeys At The Apollo will be shown at City Screen, York, for one night only on Tuesday at 8.30pm, in advance of the concert film’s release on DVD by Warp Film Productions on November 3.
Heading back
12:18pm Friday 3rd October 2008
When it came to remaking Brideshead, there was only one possible location, even though others were sought, reports Charles Hutchinson.
Review: Brideshead Revisited (12A), 132 minutes
12:21pm Friday 3rd October 2008
WAS it necessary to revisit Brideshead Revisited?
Screening revisits Brideshead
12:20pm Friday 3rd October 2008
Chris Ridgway, Castle Howard’s curator, will introduce today’s 5.25pm performance of Brideshead Revisited at City Screen, York.
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Could such a tragic death happen in York?
Every local authority in the country has been ordered to review its child protection services following the death of Baby P. But how confident can we be that a similar tragedy could not occur in York? CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL reports.
When life is a list of chores
WHAT are the most annoying words in the English language? How about those sentences that start off: “Since it’s your day off today….”
York boxer Graham Fearn revels in his professional status at the age of 34
Workaholic York boxer Graham Fearn tells TONY KELLY he is back.
Review: Blood Brothers, Grand Opera House, York, until Saturday
IMPRESARIO Bill Kenwright has wanted West End actress and chart singer Marti Webb to play Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers for 20 years.
Be excellent
THE run up to the holiday season tests everyone’s patience on so many levels, especially in the area of shopping for gifts.
York Railway Institute Ladies post intent to hang on to York Badminton League title
DOMINANT form was shown by York Railway Institute ladies, who routed University Staff Club 9-0 to signal their intention to keep hold of the York Badminton League division one trophy.
Can anyone explain this ‘chessboard’?
MY ATTENTION was recently drawn to what appears to be a chess or draughts board carved into the well trodden paving flags on the city wall near Victoria Bar.
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