Machinegun Preacher (2011)Certified: 16Duration: 123 minutesDirected by: Marc FosterStarring: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Madeline Carroll, Souleymane Sy Savane, Kathy Baker, Michael ShannonKRS release Machinegun Preacher is an adaptation of the...
What’s Your Number? (2011)Certified: 16Duration: 106 minutesDirected by: Mark MylodStarring: Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Joel McHale , Blythe Danner, Ed Begley, Jr., Andy Samberg, Zachary Quinto, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Chris PrattKRS release What’s Your...
Don’t get too close to that birthday candle ... wax figures of stars such as Russell Brand and Victoria Beckham gathered to celebrate a milestone for Madame Tussaud. The founder of the London attraction would have celebrated her 250th birthday this...
Cheryl Cole has revealed that she owns 2,000 pairs of shoes. The former X Factor judge admitted that she had a shoe “fetish” and that her obsession with them was “bonkers”. She told Grazia magazine: “I’ve always, always loved shoes but over the past...
Former Strictly Come Dancing contestant Nancy Dell’Olio said yesterday that age means “virtually nothing” to her and that she would be “honoured” to pose for Playboy magazine. The outspoken Italian lawyer and former girlfriend of ex-England football...
New movies by Stephen Frears and Spike Lee are among a star-studded line-up of world premieres scheduled for the Sundance Film Festival next month, organisers announced. The big-name movies will appear in the Premieres section at the January 19-29...
The untold stories of the crew of Captain Scott’s polar expedition have been found in journals and letters recovered from archives, and are on display for the first time. New artefacts include the last letter written by Scott’s closest comrade Edward...
Red, white and green is theme for Valletta art show
TheatreIf I Were YouManoel Theatre How many times have we wondered what the humdrum of our daily life would be like for someone else? Especially if that someone happens to be a person who usually takes us for granted and downplays the importance of...
The Franciscan Friars together with the Sliema Philharmonic Society are presenting a vocal and musical concert at the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Sacro Cuor) in Sliema tomorrow. The concert coincides with the closing festivities for the 100...
Hugo (2011)Certified: UDuration: 127 minutesDirected by: Martin ScorseseStarring: Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Chloe Grace Moritz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jude Law, Christopher Lee, Helen McRory, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emily Mortimer, Ray Winstone, Frances de...
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)Certified: 14Duration: 84 minutesDirected by: Henry Joost, Ariel SchulmanStarring: Chloe Csengery, Katie Featherstone, Jessica Tyler Brown, Sprague Grayden, Lauren Bittner, Christopher Nicolas Smith, Dustin Ingram, Hallie...
Amy Winehouse has shot to the top of the album charts, more than four months after her death. Her posthumous collection Lioness: Hidden Treasures, which features original tracks and covers, was released yesterday. Amy's father Mitch tweeted: "Just been...
The Italian language is synonymous with poetry. Words and sentences flow seamlessly, transforming into a quasi musical score. This distinct poetic and musical quality has been successfully translated and transferred on screen by a number of Italian...
Denmark’s Lars Von Trier won best European film of 2011 for his movie Melancholia at a European Film Academy ceremony in Berlin. Melancholia follows the story of two sisters. One is bride Justine (Kirsten Dunst) due to get married in the sumptuous...
Prominent Maltese-Australian operatic tenor, Christopher Busietta, is to make his Malta debut next month
It’s A Wonderful Life has been crowned the ultimate festive flick in a British poll to find the favourite Christmas film. The 1946 classic, which stars James Stewart as a man who plans to kill himself on Christmas Eve until a guardian angel intervenes,...
The Artist, a black-and-white homage to the era of silent movies, has a growing number of film insiders talking in Hollywood, where it is increasingly tipped as a leading Oscars hopeful. The movie by French film-maker Michel Hazanavicius won best film...
A fictional painting that millions of people will see in the forthcoming blockbuster War Horse has finally been made a reality. In the introduction to the best-selling book, author Michael Morpurgo conjured up an image of a village hall where a clock...
A spectacular exhibition of ancient art works of faience from the private collection of the Aboutaam family will be on view at Phoenix Ancient Art in New York from tomorrow till December 30. The exhibition will then travel to the 57th Brussels Antiques...
The story of men, women and children plucked from their homes in the West’s colonies and exhibited like zoo animals is the focus of a major show at Paris’s tribal arts museum. The Invention of The Savage, at the Quai Branly museum, shows how up until...
A film festival of new Italian cinema is being held for the ninth consecutive year, as part of the international festival: So Close So Dar: South-eastern Sicily and Malta. The festival will be held from Tuesday to Sunday and films will be screened at...
Albert, the central character in Mario Micallef’s Mixja fid-dlam (Talenti at St James Cavalier) is a 60-year-old who has recently married Tania, a woman 30 years younger than he. The seemingly happy relationship begins to crumble and ends up being...
Presenting themes of the female body in bronze, this is Liliana Fleri Soler’s second solo exhibition and a first for So Galerie. The popularity of her work has gone from strength to strength since Fleri Soler gave up a teaching career in 1996 to pursue...
Three of Malta’s stage performers will be returning this Christmas to perform a follow-up improvised comedy alternative for adults instead of the usual seasonal entertainment. Actors Malcolm Galea and Chris Dingli together with director Wesley Ellul,...
If I were you (Maleth at the Manoel Theatre) is not one of Alan Ayckbourn’s best comedies, but it is reasonably amusing. It shows the playwright dealing with his favourite theme, that of marriage as a dysfunctional institution, in a disillusioned...
Renzo Spiteri amazingly remembers every musical piece he’s ever played, but don’t ask him about dates. I find this out when, prior to talking about his latest album release, Silence Sounds and Spaces, I ask him to recap a few of the events he’s ...
The name sounds like the title of some American teen flick, but Running After Mary (R-A-M) is a new boy band featuring three aspiring Maltese artists – Mark, Dario and Naz. The trio was officially launched last week during a performance in Buġibba that...
They’ve only been back a few weeks from a much-lauded appearance at this year’s Hammer of Doom Festival alongside fellow Maltese Doom act Forsaken, and mainstays of the genre such as Lord Vicar, Yet So far and Doomsword, and there’s already news of...
2011 has been a good year for Kurt Calleja, with his performance of the song Over And Over at this year’s Malta Eurovision Song Contest. Spurred on by the song’s continuing popularity, Calleja has released it as a single and will soon be launching an...
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