Brave, entertaining and hopeful, this British sex comedy-drama delivers 97 very well-spent minutes
Not the movie of the week: Shaun de Waal reviews <i>Last Chance Harvey</i>, starring a not-so-charming Dustin Hoffman opposite Emma Thompson.
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/ 10 October 2008
NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews Brideshead Revisited, a film based on a novel of the same title by Evelyn Waugh.
For those who remember, he was the young boy who gets the girl in the film Love Actually. For those who don’t, Thomas Sangster may yet become a household name. The sixth-former from south London has been chosen by Steven Spielberg to be his Tintin for a three-movie adaptation.
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/ 26 January 2008
Women may be smashing glass ceilings on Wall Street, but a walk down the corridors of the World Economic Forum would have you fooled. Organisers say female delegates make up 17% of the hundreds of policymakers and business leaders that gathered in Davos this week — less than one in five.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: The Harry Potter franchise: It’s like we’re treading water until the big climax arrives, writes Shaun de Waal.
Urban planning expert Vanessa Watson feels strongly that African cities have failed the average woman. "Too much of our planning has tended to import models from the United States or Europe, and apply them here without questioning whether or not they are appropriate," she notes. Urban spaces need to be planned around the realities of African women’s lives