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Bruce Dessau

quoteA classic routine in every sense, shame the fresh material could not match itquote

Bruce Dessau Lee Evans: Big Tour 2008 Theatre

Nicholas de Jongh

quoteI have never seen a Pinter play so possessed by deathly foreboding, menace and covert gay desirequote

Nicholas de Jongh No Man's Land Restaurants

Fay Maschler

quoteThe folksy, let-it-all-hang-out notion of sharing sits oddly in the confines of a formally decorated hotel dining roomquote

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Amg, Camden

quoteA beautiful restoration, peaceful ambience, fantastic service & delicious food - would definitely recommendquote

York & Albany Film

Mark, London

quoteOne of the worst movies I have seen. Was looking forward to a laugh ... not sure I laughed once! quote

How To Lose Friends & Alienate People Theatre

Jennifer, London

quoteDavid Walliams is so out of his depth in this production that my friends and I were gripping the seats in embarrassmentquote

No Man's Land

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Must see movies at London Film Festival

The 52nd BFI London Film Festival opens next week and could turn out to be the best in years. Derek Malcolm makes picks his highlights. .. more |  Add your view 

 
Film Dummy

Dummy film-maker is promising talent

Getting its London premiere tonight at Raindance, Matthew Thompson's debut feature, Dummy, has a lot more going for it than its unfortunate title. .. more |  Add your review 

 
Film Gomorrah

Gomorrah are not Goodfellas

Never mind Hollywood gangsters - Gomorrah, a brave study of Naples' notorious Camorra, is the real thing... more |  Add your review 

 
Film The House Bunny

Tale of a tough old rabbit

The House Bunny - about a 28-year-old Playboy Bunny cast out of the Playboy mansion - is a silly comedy with a few decent jokes in its otherwise dim screenplay... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Bigga Than Ben

Russians on rampage in Bigga Than Ben

Shot on Super 16 film stock for practically nothing, SA Halewood's debut feature, Bigga Than Ben, is subtitled A Russian’s Guide to Ripping Off London... more |  Add your review 

 
Film City of Ember

City of Ember is best left beneath Earth

For all the rich production values and well-known cast, City of Ember falters because of both a very ordinary screenplay and dramatic detail... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Mirrors

Kiefer reflects on something sinister in Mirrors

Mirrors is a remake of a weird South Korean horror film starring Kiefer Sutherland - but just isn't as scary as the original version... more |  Add your review 

 

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Film Mutant Chronicles

The game's up for Mutant Chronicles

Mutant Chronicles stars John Malkovich Ron Perlman and looks like a computer game unwisely made into a movie without the money to do it justice... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Tuesday

Martian cops turn to crime

Life on Mars pair John Simm and Philip Glenister are reunited in Tue£day, a ponderous British bank-blag drama. .. more |  Add your review 

 
Film Nights in Rodanthe

Storm clouds hang over Nights in Rodanthe

Richard Gere and Diane Lane are cast adrift in Nights in Rodanthe in a farrago that seems to be made of treacle... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Gunning For That No 1 Spot

Hoop dreams in Gunning For That No 1 Spot

You have to be a basketball fan, or just a basket case, to concentrate on Gunning For That No 1 Spot by Beastie Boys founding member Adam Yauch... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Brideshead Revisited

Stop bashing Brideshead

It's unfair to compare Julian Jarrold's version of Brideshead Revisited to the classic TV series — but if only he'd taken more risks. .. more |  Add your review 

 
Film How to Lose Friends

Farcical take on How to Lose Friends

The big screen version of Toby Young's memoir, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, is a lesson in how to bore viewers and infuriate critics... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Import/Export

Marvellous misery in Import/Export

Ulrich Seidl is an Austrian director whose work illustrates the wretchedness of life at or near the bottom of the heap in Import/Export... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Heavy Load

Fun group therapy in Heavy Load

It must have taken considerable courage for Jerry Rothwell to film a documentary about a punk rock group with learning disabilities for Heavy Load... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Good Dick

Good Dick in bad setting

Marianna Palka's film, Good Dick, might have been more convincing set deep in the bowels of Glasgow rather than LA... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Fear(s) of the Dark

No Fear(s) of the Dark

A collection of short stories from 10 of the world's cutting-edge graphic artists ought to be more satisfying than Fear(s) of the Dark... more |  Add your review 

 
Film The Fall

The Fall is eccentric fantasy

The Fall may look a treat in a static kind of way but the whole is a piece of turgid pictorialism that ends up unbearably dull... more |  Add your review 

 
Film Fly Me to the Moon

Fly Me to the Moon

The rather limp animated 3-D epic has three houseflies sneaking aboard the Apollo 11 spaceship mission to the moon... more |  Add your review 

 
 


 
 
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