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: DJ Caruso.
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Billy Bob Thornton, Ethan Embry, Michael Chiklis, William Sadler, Eric Christian Olsen, Anthony Mackie
Description: Jerry Shaw and single mother Rachel Holloman have never met, but both receive similar telephone calls informing them to follow explicit instructions or pay a terrible price. At first, they both fail to comply witrh their orders and the two hapless victims watch in horror as the nefarious caller makes good on their promises. The strangers soon abide by every dictate, conveyed via various pieces of everyday technology. When the mastermind behind the devious scheme reveals their ultimate goal - for Jerry and Rachel to murder a politician - the would-be assassins find themselves on the run from the cops and FBI; the very people who could save them.
Country: US. 2008. 117mins
D J Caruso’s hectically incoherent thriller stars Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan as the victims of a terrorist conspiracy. They are confused about what’s happening, and so may you be.
The basic premise is that the two ordinary New Yorkers are at the mercy of a disembodied female voice that knows exactly what they are doing. It can even force them to do what they don’t want to. We’re being watched, folks, and manipulated too.
Hitchcock could have done all this much, much better. All Caruso can do is orchestrate pile upon pile of meaningless action sequences and suggest a top secret plan to overthrow the government. One presumes Muslims are involved, since the Americans have initially blown up a terrorist suspect in somewhere like Afghanistan and made a mess of a funeral ceremony.
Caruso, who made the better Disturbia, is also preoccupied with showing us how computers, cell phones and security cameras can make our lives hell. He posits that these inanimate objects can make bad mistakes.
Billy Bob Thornton and Rosario Dawson are the FBI agents trying to do something about it all, and they are distinctly better actors than the leads which is probably why they are killed in the end. But do we care? This is a disastrous mess.
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