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,
Derek Malcolm's rating
Reader rating
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock.
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Leo G Carroll, Jessie Royce Landis
Description: Advertising guru Roger Thornhill is the victim of mistaken identity perpetrated by the US Secret Service to protect one of its undercover operatives. Consequently, the mysterious and menacing Phillip Vandamm targets Roger and the debonair ladies man finds himself framed for a crime he did not commit, with seemingly no option but to run for his life. En route, he hooks up with the alluring Eve Kendall but her motives are far from clear.
Country: US. 1959. 136mins
Cary Grant: a hapless New York advertising executive
If you want to confirm what an extraordinary director Alfred Hitchcock was, and what an exceptional star Cary Grant was, too, there’s nothing much better for pure entertainment than this re-released chase thriller.
There are some obvious mistakes, one of which was the fact that Grant was exactly the same age as actress Jesse Royce Landis when they did the film in 1959, and she appears as his mother.
Otherwise, the poor New York advertising executive (Grant), who is mistaken for a crook and chased half way across America, has a terrible time, with Hitch clearly smirking in the background as he devises ever more spectacular tropes, the chief of which is the crop-dusting sequence.
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