Prisoners (2013)Certified: 15Duration: 153 minutesDirected by: Denis VilleneuveStarring: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo, Paul Dano, Dylan Minnette, Zoe Borde, Erin Gerasimovich, Kyla Drew...
Lego may be a children’s toy, but for one man it’s a serious business. New York-based artist Nathan Sawaya uses the brightly coloured bricks as a medium to create both whimsical and awe-inspiring giant sculptures. He has put together multiple...
Country-pop star Taylor Swift scored big at the American Music Awards on Sunday, taking home four wins including the night’s top prize for artist of the year, as some of pop music’s biggest names came together for the fan-voted awards ceremony. Swift,...
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire blazed straight to the top of weekend movie charts, setting a US and Canadian record for November ticket sales and hauling in a huge $307.7 million around the world. Fans poured into theatres for the second instalment in...
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The European Parliament Information Office in Malta, in collaboration with Euro Media Forum, is presenting a three-day film festival between Wednesday and Friday at St James Cavalier, Valletta. The three finalist films in the run for the European...
Peter Cushing in the 1957 film The Abominable Snowman. The revamped Hammer film studio is remaking one of its own trademark horror movies more than 50 years after the original first came out. The new version of The Abominable Snowman, described as a...
The US State Department has a secret weapon – four virtuoso musicians going under The Boston Boys moniker. David Schembri gathers some intelligence, straight from their e-mail address. It has become sort of cool to play the banjo or the mandolin,...
Sometimes a voice creeps up on you out of nowhere, and grabs your attention with both hands. This happened to me a couple of months ago when I was sent a couple of You Tube links that introduced me to Gaela Brown. Born in Paris to a Polish father and a...
In the wake of the two singles released earlier this year, namely Flight 170 and Vampires, Chris and Moira are all set to take their music to foreign shores. One may argue that they’ve already done this since their songs are available on various...
It started off as a casual jam, became a side project, and has now grown into a fully-fledged musical act that easily rates as one of the most significant to emerge from the Maltese indie scene in recent years. The Shh may still confuse people in terms...
Christmas came early for the Mary’s Angels Choir, largely because they spent most of summer recording an album of Maltese Christmas carols. Established at the parish of Attard, the choir is made up of boys and girls aged five and older. The choir has...
Four young lads, Antoine Farrugia, Robert Muscat, Daniel Cachia and Ismael Bonello, recently launched themselves onto the local scene with a song called My Remedy. Operating under the name The Madhatters, this young quartet has a lot of ambition,...
To mark the 10th anniversary of the Bay Music Awards, this year’s event will feature some of the very best in local talent along with many surprises, among them special live performances by top Maltese acts Winter Moods, Red Electrick, Ira Losco,...
If you thought opera was about singing, think again! Alex Vella Gregory talks to Italian mezzo-soprano Laura Sarti to find out more.
Richard Wagner. Photo: Wikipedia Commons The Classical Music Appreciation Group of the German-Maltese Circle will pay another tribute to the great German composer Richard Wagner, to mark the bicentenary of his birth, by devoting its next appreciation...
The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra will pay homage to over 60 years’ service to music rendered by composer Joseph Sammut in a premiere of his latest work Heritage Suite. The orchestra will be conducted by the composer himself. Marcelline Agius will be...
David Schembri speaks to Joe Camilleri, who is directing a Maltese adaptation of Alejandro Casona’s classic play Los Árboles Mueren De Pie at the Salesians Theatre, the last theatre standing in Sliema. The script Joe Camilleri is holding in his...
Gaia Cauchi Eleven-year-old Gaia Cauchi will be representing Malta at the next Junior Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Kiev, Ukraine, with the song The Start. The Start was written and composed with the help of Muxu, Elton Zarb and Gillian Attard,...
Featuring choreographies to some of the best film soundtracks of all time, Centre Stage Dance Academy will be staging Movies in Motion, a dance show under the direction of Natalie Sciortino. Movies in Motion brings together a strong cast of 200 dancers...
Top screenwriting lecturer Robert McKee tells David Schembri that thinking like a writer isn’t just for writers, and why he wouldn’t want to be part of the so-called millennial generation. Robert McKee “You want something autobiographical about...
Les Gavroches, by Selina Scerri. Completed throughout the past year, the latest collection of artworks by Selina Scerri was inspired by the heart of Valletta and actually painted from her studio in the Ritz Arcades in Republic Street. The collection,...
The great gods of graphic fiction are converging at St James Cavalier, as Malta Comic Con is back with a bang. Ramona Depares gets an overview of the biggest names expected this year. Illustration by Joseph Bugeja. The artist is a regular fixture at...
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‘I dream of the day when animals will no longer be abandoned or ill-treated, and when there would no longer be a need for shelters’ – Zoe Chomarat A passion for animals and her painting brushes have led a French artist to put on her fourth exhibition...
Weekend of a Champion, a documentary about British Formula One driver Jackie Stewart, went unnoticed for about 40 years until the London film lab where it was stored was closing and asked its producer, Roman Polanski, what to do with it. The...
A German prosecutor investigating a billion-dollar art hoard found in a Munich apartment called for some of the works to be returned to their reclusive owner while experts examine if others were stolen or extorted by the Nazis. Reinhard Nemetz, state...
TheatreMeta Morna tal-MellieħaManoel Theatre Family relations can be fraught at the best of times, but when generational differences are exacerbated by cultural and societal differences, the stakes become much higher. Talenti theatrical company...
Lunchtime concertAnimae String QuartetSt Paul’s Anglican pro-Cathedral The Animae String Quartet is a formation with elements from Spain, Malta and the Czech Republic. It consists of Ana Martinesz and Inma Salguero (violins), Matthew Fenech (viola) and...
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