An impressive noir-ish biopic, American Gangster won’t go down as a classic but it is a solid, well acted and convincing mafia-style flick. And the moral of the story… don’t wear fur. A buy-in-plenty-of-popcorn 8 out of 10. Director: Ridley Scott……Starring: Denzel Washington……Russell Crowe It’s a Free World……Ocean’s Eleven
Pictures of Gemma Atkinson in Ultimo are easily available at the Daily Mail, which spends good money on photos of her working out, showering and the rest. It’s this soft porn – stars like Hollyoak’s Gemma Atkinson semi-naked, nude or topless – that keeps the Daily Mail’s circulation up; two photos of this Continue reading
‘Relatively small touches, that need not cost the earth, can make a significant difference to the experience the gym offers,’ is how I like to sign off my emails to Virgin Active, but it’s a message that falls on deaf ears. The transition from the fairly upmarket Holmes Place to Virgin Active, which Continue reading
Local shops, backed by the Lib Dems and Cllr Sheila Newman have won the first round of a campaign to stop Tesco converting a run down Esso garage into a Tesco Express. Given that Esso has, say Greenpeace, ‘done more than any other company to stop the world from tackling climate change’, it’s Continue reading
It’s easy to approach David Williamson’s A Conversation, a triumph when staged in the Royal Exchange studio now transferred to the main stage, with expectations high. There’s the promise of a challenging journey, the starting point of which is the aftermath of the brutal rape and murder of a near perfect young middle Continue reading
