This shoddy melodrama draws tenuous parallels between two women in 19th-century China, and two more in present-day Hong Kong.
My Secret Life: Jodi Picoult, 45, author
Saturday 03 March 2012
'I have a crush – but it's cougarish'
Keep calm and carry on singing, Hollywood style
Sunday 19 February 2012
As in the 1930s, tough economic times mean more musicals on the cinema screen
X-Men First Class (12A)
Friday 03 June 2011
Video: Hugh Jackman's poverty call
Wednesday 20 April 2011
The Wolverine star urges people to try living on just £1-a-day to help raise awareness of the world's poor.
Demi Moore's Striptease is film fans' 'favourite guilty pleasure'
Wednesday 06 October 2010
Demi Moore's film Striptease - awarded the title of worst movie of the year when released - was today named film fans' favourite guilty pleasure.
Cultural Life: Harlan Coben, novelist
Friday 04 June 2010
Books: I just read and loved David Benioff's 'City of Thieves'. It is about the siege of Leningrad and manages to be moving, adventurous and funny, all at the same time. I don't normally read self-help but I really enjoyed 'The Happiness Project' by Gretchen Rubin. It's as though the smartest girl in the class did all your homework on happiness and gave you her easy-to-digest notes. She spent a year test driving theories about how to be happier.
'Uncharted 2' leads game award nominations
Monday 23 November 2009
Sony's adventure blockbuster 'Uncharted 2: Among Thieves' has seized a leading eight nominations for this year's Video Game Awards, Spike TV announced.
DVD review: X Men Origins: Wolverine, For retail & rental (20th Century Fox)
Sunday 18 October 2009
Gavin Hood, the director of Tsotsi, revives Marvel Comics' X-Men franchise with this handsome yet redundant prequel.
DVD review: X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Gavin Hood, 107 mins (12)
Friday 16 October 2009
Young Logan (Hugh Jackman) claws his old man to death and goes on the run with his similarly clawed brother, Victor (Liev Schreiber – what in hell's teeth is he doing in this rot?).
Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman's showstopping performance an internet hit
Wednesday 30 September 2009
The showstopping performance by Hollywood stars Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman as their Broadway show was interrupted by a mobile phone call has now become an internet hit.
Hugh Jackman stops Broadway show for ringing phone in audience
Tuesday 29 September 2009
One theatergoer won't forget to turn their cell phone off next time, after Australian actor Hugh Jackman stopped a Broadway show to ask them to stop their phone from ringing.
DVD: Push (12)
Friday 12 June 2009
Nick (Chris Evans) and Cassie (Dakota Fanning) are a pair of rebel psychics on the run from a shadowy organisation known as "The Division".








