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With a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much fun
Babbo
Film
This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection
Bright Star
Theatre
Although the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops off
Seize The Day
I loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.
I saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.
I have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyoto
London,
04.11.09
It's 20 years since the Berlin Wall came down, and even longer since Nick Curtis lived in Germany's most iconic city. So what does he make of Berlin...
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02.11.09
They are cheap to run, breeze past queues and don't pay the congestion charge. Nick Curtis reports on the London businesses abandoning four wheels for...
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02.11.09
Women have helmed some first-rate films this year but still account for only three per cent of the industry’s directors, says Nick Curtis
29.10.09
Though we take it for granted, and frequently curse it to high heaven, the London Underground is a wonder
29.10.09
What a pleasure, and what a fitting end to an excellent 53rd London Film Festival. Sam Taylor-Wood's film about John Lennon's teenage years is a...
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26.10.09
He's rich enough to retire for good, so why does Mark Guard spend his days with a ragtag band of squatters occupying empty townhouses in some of...
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22.10.09
Atom Egoyan's film, Chloe, is a glossy, erotic thriller with an arthouse veneer.
20.10.09
The sheer sexiness of Brazil is the latest subject of Testino’s lens. Nick Curtis can appreciate the űber-photographer’s fascination
20.10.09
An Education has its premiere tonight as part of the London Film Festival in the Vue West End.
19.10.09
When you're showing off in the kitchen it's now the size of your book that matters. Nick Curtis finds it difficult to lift and blend
16.10.09
Colin Firth gives an impeccably restrained performance in the lead role of A Single Man, an accomplished period piece from Tom Ford
14.10.09
Following his mighty performance in Jerusalem, Mark Rylance tries playing Beckett in the West End.
14.10.09
First review: Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox has been updated, Americanised and generally mucked about with by indie oddball Wes Anderson.
09.10.09
The sudden death of his star devastated director Terry Gilliam. He could have given up on the film they were making but, says daughter Amy, they had...
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07.10.09
That Dr Parnassus was finished at all following the death mid-shoot of its star Heath Ledger is impressive.
05.10.09
Up - Disney Pixar's latest hit, about an elderly widower who takes his house airborne with helium balloons, sets a dazzling new benchmark in 3D...
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01.10.09
The £6 million, half-mile flyover in Chiswick is one of the stranger manifestations of civic London pride
30.09.09
Alistair McGowan made his reputation as a comedian — but as his debut play is unveiled, he can’t stop talking about heavy subjects.
25.09.09
With the first of his Five Day Features due for release, maverick director Shane Meadows is ready for a revolution.
18.09.09
John Lennon, Charles Darwin, John Keats and Heath Ledger are all coming soon in a bumper crop of homegrown releases
