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: John Sayles.
Cast: Danny Glover, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Yaya DaCosta, Gary Clark Jr, Vondie Curtis-Hall
Description: In the close-knit town of Harmony, Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis runs The Honeydripper, a bar which, like its weary owner, has seen much better times. Tyrone's debts are mounting and unless he can raise a small fortune, he will have to close the establishment and finally be free of the meddlesome, racist sheriff. In desperation, Tyrone advertises a one-off concert with popular music star Guitar Sam. Soon after, musician Sonny arrives in town looking for work and thus a plan begins to take shape, with the help of Tyrone's step-daughter China Doll, to save The Honeydripper from closure.
Country: US. 2007. 124mins
Guitar picker: musician Sonny (Gary Clark Jr) is arrested for vagrancy by a racist sheriff
John Sayles is, in a way, the true successor to the great John Cassavetes, and this Deep South fable about the birth of rock ’n’ roll is one of the best of his 40-year career.
Set in 1950, it has Danny Glover as Tyrone, the veteran proprietor of the Honeydripper Lounge who, deep in debt, struggles to compete with the jukebox joint next door. Laying off his longtime blues singer (Mable John), for one night only he engages the famous Guitar Sam to try to turn things round.
Sam doesn’t turn up, so Sonny (Gary Clark Jr), a young drifter with a new-fangled electric guitar in his case, has to become the ace-in-the-hole. But first Tyrone has to blackmail the Sheriff (Stacy Keach), a racist who has arrested Sonny for vagrancy and rented him out as a cotton picker to the highest bidder.
Beautifully acted — especially by Glover and Charles S Dutton as Tyrone’s old friend — the writing makes you laugh with and fear for these hard-pressed black Americans in the Alabama of the Fifties.
Another plus point is the music, which Sayles maintains heralded the coming of rock ’n’ roll while upholding the tradition of the blues. This is the film-maker’s 16th film and it is not his most fluent technically, sometimes seeming like a piece of music theatre translated to the screen. But it comes from the heart.
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