Harriet Walker: Equality in relationships, as on the dancefloor, is an illusion
Saturday 12 March 2011
It's terribly unfashionable to say it, but women will never reach complete parity with men. How can we, when we still rely on them not to dump us and one day to pop the question?
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel split
Friday 11 March 2011
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel have ended their four-year relationship.
DVD: The Illusionist, For retail & rental (20th Century Fox)
Sunday 13 February 2011
Directed by Sylvain Chomet, from a screenplay written by Jacques Tati in 1959, this gorgeously hand-drawn cartoon sees an ageing French conjurer trying his luck in Edinburgh, where he shares a boarding house with a young girl.
DVD: The Illusionist (PG)
Friday 11 February 2011
Fans of Sylvain Chomet's wonderful Belleville Rendez-Vous will find the director in a slightly gentler mood here.
Heaven knows we're beautiful now
Wednesday 24 November 2010
Screen Talk: Blood money
Friday 03 September 2010
For the first time, Hollywood is admitting that it pays to be long in the tooth – but only if you're a vampire. Bloodsuckers are big business, worth an estimated $7bn across all entertainment, since Twilight hit the big screen two years ago.
The Illusionist (PG) <br/>Salt (12A) <br/>The Expendables (15)
Sunday 22 August 2010
Film of the week: The Illusionist, Sylvain Chomet, 79 mins, (PG)
Friday 20 August 2010
The A-Team (12A)
Friday 30 July 2010
The Karate Kid looks a model of coherence and charm next to The A-Team. Please tell me the TV show wasn't quite so fatuous as this farrago of action stunts and non-liners (the opposite of a one-liner).
Valentine's Day (NC)
Friday 12 February 2010
At first sight Garry Marshall's all-star ensemble looks to be a Short Cuts-lite – Short Cutlets, if you will – until it establishes its tone of flabby sentimentality and you realise it's more like an LA version of Love, Actually. There's even a sickeningly precocious kid who declares his love to an adult.
Jessica Biel: Out of this world
Friday 27 November 2009
Katie Price proves a big draw for cybercrooks
Tuesday 25 August 2009
Katie Price was named the UK's "most dangerous celebrity in cyberspace" by internet researchers today.
Jessica Biel: 'I fight against prejudice every day'
Thursday 06 November 2008








