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Keeping The Dead, By Tess Gerritsen
Thursday 26 February 2009
What does the crime writer Tess Gerritsen have in common with Clint Eastwood – apart, that is, from being a massively successful purveyor of entertaining popular culture? In order to buy studio funding for his personal projects, Eastwood would periodically turn out a crowd-pleasing thriller that focused on suspense rather than character. That appears to be what the highly talented Gerritsen has done in Keeping the Dead. Yet her seamless blend of good writing and pulse-racing tension has long been a stock-in-trade, so no division between serious and popular books was ever on the cards.
Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood, 117 mins, 15
Sunday 22 February 2009
The screen legend plays an angry old man at war with the city of Detroit
The Word On...Changeling
Friday 05 December 2008
"Throughout 'Changeling', you can feel Clint Eastwood's sense of accomplishment. There he is behind the lens, champion of women's rights, exposing injustice. What he doesn't see is that he's detracting from Christine Collins' plight by oversimplifying... Eastwood has turned the truth into a bad joke." - Joseph, imdb.com
Changeling, Clint Eastwood, 142 mins, 15<br>Four Christmases, Seth Gordon, 88 mins, 12A
Sunday 30 November 2008
A child goes missing – and so does the director
Film of the week: Changeling (15)
Friday 28 November 2008
Clint Eastwood (142 mins) starring Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, Devon Conti
Clint Eastwood - the stardust cowboy
Friday 08 August 2008
The 78-year-old Clint Eastwood is being honoured by a major retrospective at London's BFI. No wonder, says James Mottram, as this is a career that shows no sign of slowing down
Cannes round-up: War, revolution, love, death ...and Liverpool
Sunday 25 May 2008
Cannes was long on big themes and short on levity but there were some gems, not least a hymn to home by Terence Davies
Print The Legend: The Myth Of The West, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Thursday 13 March 2008
Cowboy myths just keep rollin' on
First Night: The Secret Policeman's Ball, The Albert Hall
Sunday 15 October 2006
Some of the acts in last night's benefit for Amnesty International were not the first you might think of for a show in favour of human rights. Al Murray's pub landlord, for instance, gave his impression of a German publican: "Mit salad?" he inquired and threw a handful of sauerkraut in the customer's face.
Food heroes: the River Café's Rose Gray
Sunday 01 October 2006
Skye Gyngell signs up for a thrilling masterclass with her culinary mentor, the River Café's Rose Gray
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Farewell, Shameless. Your heirs have work to do
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