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: Duncan Jones.
Cast: Matt Berry, Sam Rockwell, Dominique McElligott, Kevin Spacey, Benedict Wong
Description: Posted to a mining station on the moon for the past three years, Sam is looking forward to returning to Earth and his beautiful wife and three-year-old daughter, who he speaks to via videophone. A routine visit to one of the mining vehicles opens Sam's eyes to a chilling secret kept by the station's computer GERTY, and the possibility that he is not alone on the Sarang moon base.
Country: UK. 2008. 96mins
Set for the stars: Sam Rockwell as the lonely astronaut
Few directors can have made a sci-fi movie as cheaply as Duncan Jones (David Bowie’s son) — and that you can’t accuse it of looking cheap is a compliment to the debut director. It is just a shame the plot doesn’t quite gel by the end.
The excellent Sam Rockwell plays an astronaut who has to spend three years in his antiseptic space capsule on the Moon, occasionally essaying out for a routine drive in a lunar rover. His only companion is Gerty, a nice computer who seems a kind of descendant of Kubrick’s Hal and is voiced by Kevin Spacey.
One day, plagued with headaches and hallucinations, wishing his wife and child would send him another video from Earth, he has an accident in his rover. When Gerty has helped him recover, he finds himself presented with a younger, angrier version of himself (Rockwell again).
What happens then shall remain a secret — but isn’t much upon which to cling as a plot. Even so, Jones, as writer and director, has fashioned a good-looking, claustrophobic piece despite his limited resources. And his idea that our astronaut is there because a way has been found to supply the earth with clean energy from the sun via a lunar mining operation isn’t quite so outré as it might seem — even if we don’t see any miners.
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