New Moon is nothing if not an international advertisement for the hungry virtues of virginity and young people can’t get enough of it
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Theatre
A smart, prickly and rewarding view of sexual and emotional confusion
Cock
Restaurants
Kitchen W8 is a bargain for this area, if such sophistication is what you crave
Kitchen W8
Too long and drawn out but very entertaining with excellent special effects
This is a peculiar play and does not work for me. Some of it is very funny but there are real flaws
Alex has a strong powerful voice and was faultless, she is far better now than she was on the X-Factor
London,
Derek Malcolm's rating
Reader rating
Dir: Arie Posin.
Cast: Jamie Bell, Camilla Belle, Rory Culkin, Glenn Close, Ralph Fiennes, Carrie-Anne Moss
Mild ones: Camilla Bell and Jamie Bell as America's disaffected youth
Jamie Bell may have conquered Hollywood as a teenager, but this ironic and mildly subversive comedy gives him little chance to prove his worth.
The Billy Elliot star plays Dean, the school loner in a suburban town where Stepford-type parents raise their potentially troublesome kids on Ritalin and video games.
When he finds his best friend hanged, he doesn't even bother to tell his mother (Glenn Close) since she's busy organising a cocktail party.
Then there's a kidnapping involving the school bully (Justin Chatwin) and the kidnapped boy's mother is also too busy to do much about it. Somehow or other, it's up to Dean to sort things out.
Arie Posin's film clearly belongs to the well-worn genre of American suburban disaffection, but it's neither sharp nor funny enough to get very high up the pecking order.
Bell's presence, however, is a distinct plus, even if the tone of the whole thing is fatally uneven.
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